Kenny was elected to a single term in the Nevada Assembly in 1992, defeating Republican incumbent Brad Goetting.
[6] Kenny was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2002, but was defeated by Republican incumbent Lorraine Hunt.
[1][7][8] Early in 2003 Kenny was implicated in Operation G-Sting, a federal corruption investigation involving a Las Vegas strip club.
The investigation ultimately resulted in the convictions of several other former elected officials, including former county commissioners Lance Malone, Dario Herrera and Mary Kincaid-Chauncey.
[11] Kenny was later transferred back to the Las Vegas Corrections Center on June 17, 2009, where she spent the rest of her sentence until her scheduled release on December 18.