Janet Vestal Kelly | |
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![]() Vestal Kelly in 2025 | |
16th Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources | |
Assumed office July 8, 2024 | |
Governor | Glenn Youngkin |
Preceded by | John Littel |
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia | |
In office January 24,2010 –January 17,2014 | |
Governor | Bob McDonnell |
Preceded by | Katherine Hanley |
Succeeded by | Levar Stoney |
Personal details | |
Born | Janet Elizabeth Vestal February 16,1976 Alamance County,North Carolina,U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouses |
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Children | 3 |
Education | Liberty University (BA) |
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Janet Vestal Kelly (born February 16, 1976) is an American civil servant serving as the Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources since 2024. She previously served as the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2010 through 2014 as part of the cabinet of Governor Bob McDonnell. [1] [2]
he previously served as Chief Operations Officer of McDonnell's gubernatorial campaign and on his staff in the Attorney General's office. [3] During McDonnell's federal corruption trial, Kelly served as a key witness for the defense. [4] [5]
Kelly currently serves as Principal & Director of Government Relations for America's Kids Belong, as well as President of Virginia's Kids Belong, organizations devoted to uniting government, faith-based, creative, and business sectors to end the foster care & adoption crisis in the US. [6]
Kelly married Robert Keith Polarek on August 9, 1997. [7] The two later divorced, and Kelly married Ryan Patrick Kelly in 2012.