Janet Vestal Kelly

The Honorable Janet Vestal Kelly has served as Virginia’s Secretary of Health and Human Resources since 2024. She has a distinguished career in the public and private sectors, specializing in convening leaders to solve complex problems.  

Her leadership in the Health and Human Resources Secretariat focuses on ensuring every Virginian can live out their true purpose and potential. 

As Governor Youngkin’s Senior Advisor for Children and Families, she led the Safe and Sound Task Force significantly reducing the number of displaced children in foster care and the Prompt Placement Task Force which increased access to state psychiatric hospitals. She was also a leading force behind the recently-signed kinship care legislation, the First Lady’s It Only Takes One fentanyl awareness initiative, and the Governor's transformational behavioral health plan, Right Help, Right Now.   

Secretary Kelly serves as Co-Chair of the Reclaiming Childhood Task Force. From 2010-2014, Secretary Kelly served as Secretary of the Commonwealth in the McDonnell Administration.