Trey joined the Governor’s legal staff as a Deputy Executive Counsel in February of 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of law, and has significant experience in criminal and family law as well as in government and legislative policy. Trey, his wife Katherine, and three children live in Barrow County.

Frank W. Berry is the Commissioner for the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH). In this role, he manages the $15 billion agency responsible for health care purchasing, planning and regulation, and improving the health outcomes of Georgians.

Prior to joining DCH, Berry was the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) in 2012. He served in this role for over four years and has more than 34 years of public service experience.

Broce most recently served as Communications Director and Chief Deputy Executive Counsel for Governor Kemp, and she previously managed communications and served as legal counsel for elections and legislative affairs at the Georgia Secretary of State's Office. Broce holds a bachelor's degree in Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology and law degree from Georgia State University College of Law. Originally from Cartersville in Bartow County, she now lives in White, Georgia with her husband, Jason, and two sons, Beau and Jack. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, Federalist Society, Republican National Lawyers Association, and Georgia Board of Nursing.

Department of Human Services Commissioner Robyn A. Crittenden oversees the state’s work to strengthen Georgia families and protect vulnerable children and adults from abuse, neglect and exploitation. Crittenden, a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan School of Law, was DHS Commissioner from July 2015 until November 2018, when she was appointed Secretary of State to complete Gov. Brian P. Kemp’s unexpired term. As Secretary of State, Crittenden became the first African-American woman to serve as a statewide constitutional officer in Georgia. In January 2019, Governor Kemp reappointed her to head DHS.

At DHS, Crittenden has been instrumental in the creation of award-winning changes in technology to enhance human services available to Georgians, including Georgia Gateway and the Child Support Mobile Application. She initiated the annual Senior Hunger Summit, from which came a comprehensive State Plan to Address Senior Hunger, the first of its kind in the nation. Under Crittenden’s leadership, the Parental Accountability Court program has thrived and is now represented in 42 of the state’s 49 judicial circuits.

Rachel Davidson is the Director of the Georgia Office of the Child Advocate (OCA). She has more than a decade of experience as a child welfare attorney and was previously a policy analyst for OCA. Davidson has represented children in dependency cases with the DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center and served as a fellow for the Cold Case Project administered by the Supreme Court of Georgia’s Committee on Justice for Children. She also served as a juvenile court liaison for the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services and as the unit manager of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. She is a member of the Georgia Supreme Court’s Committee on Justice for Children. Davidson earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in Business Administration and a law degree from Stetson University.

Greg Dozier holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and master’s degree in Business Administration from Georgia State University. Dozier resides in Covington with his wife and two daughters. He has extensive leadership experience in state operations, formerly served as the Governor’s Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Dozier served as Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, Commissioner of the Department of Driver Services, and Division Director at the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget. Dozier has served in leadership capacities under Governors Perdue, Deal, and Kemp.

Judy Fitzgerald was appointed Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) in 2016. She has been with DBHDD since 2012, previously serving in the roles of Chief of Staff and Deputy Commissioner.

Fitzgerald is a social worker with a career-long focus on behavioral health and public service delivery systems. Prior to joining DBHDD, she worked in a variety of health and human service settings. She served as Vice President of Strategy for View Point Health, one of Georgia’s twenty-five community service boards. She has also worked as a consultant on child and adolescent services in several states and was the Executive Director for the Mental Health Association of Georgia. Fitzgerald was privileged to begin her career in the Mental Health Program of The Carter Center, working for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter on domestic and international advocacy and policy efforts to promote mental health and reduce the stigma of mental illness.

Fitzgerald earned her master’s degree in social work from the University of Georgia. She and her husband Tim Gould live in Cobb County with their two children, Abbie and Jack.

Governor Brian Kemp appointed Joy to serve as Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement in January 2019. Before coming to Governor Kemp’s team, Joy served as the director of Literacy For All, a donor-advised initiative of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.

Over the past 20 years, Joy has served in Governor Sonny Perdue’s Office as policy adviser and deputy COO; as vice president of education for the Metro Atlanta Chamber; and as the Georgia Student Finance Commission VP and Executive Director of the REACH Georgia Foundation.

She has two grown children and resides in Sandy Springs.

Amy M. Jacobs is commissioner of Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL), the agency responsible for helping meet the early child care and education needs of hundreds of thousands of Georgia’s children and their families. Governor Nathan Deal appointed her to lead the department in June 2014. As DECAL Commissioner, Jacobs oversees an annual budget of more than $900 million for programs focused on child care licensing, subsidized child care, child and adult care nutrition, child care quality, and early childhood education, specifically Georgia’s Pre-K Program. She is a member of the Georgia’s Children’s Cabinet, the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel, the Alliance of Education Agency Heads, and the 2020 Complete Count Committee. She sits on the board of directors for the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education and is chair of the board for the Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy.

Attended Augusta College from 1978-1980 and graduated from Georgia Southern College Cum Laude in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in both Spanish and Political Science

Attended Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, in Birmingham, Alabama, graduating with a J.D. in 1987.

Began his state government work during the 1988 GA Legislative Session serving as Legal Aide for the Georgia House Judiciary Committee under Honorable Charles Thomas from Temple, Georgia.

On April of 1988, he began working at the State of Georgia Office of Legislative Counsel drafting legislation for members of the Senate and House of Representatives.

In 1994, he moved to the Council of Juvenile Court Judges of Georgia as Staff Attorney where he eventually became the Executive Director of the Council on February of 1995.

He has been a member of the Atlanta West End Rotary Club since 1991. He is a Paul Harris

Mr. Neal currently serves as the Executive Director for the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. He was appointed to this position by Governor Nathan Deal in November of 2016. Director Neal formally served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2004 until 2013, when he was appointed by Governor Deal to be the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Transition, Support, and Reentry. Director Neal previously sat on the Board of Directors for the Lookout Mountain Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the SAGE Resource Center, and the YOBEL House. He and his wife Gretchen have two children and seven grandchildren, and they currently reside in Chickamauga, Georgia.

Tyrone Oliver was named Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice in July 2019 by Governor Brian P. Kemp. He is responsible for the daily operation of the multi-faceted agency of more than 3,500 employees that holds youthful offenders accountable for their actions through probation supervision and secure detention.

Tyrone is a 20-year veteran of law enforcement who, in 1999, began his career as a detention officer with the Newton County Sheriff’s Office. In 2013, Oliver was one of the first employees of the Brookhaven Police Department when the new city was formed. In January 2016, Commissioner Oliver was named Chief of Police for the City of Social Circle and in November 2018 he was designated by the Social Circle as Deputy City Manager.

Commissioner Oliver is a graduate of Columbus State University’s Law Enforcement Professional Management Program, completed the FBI's Law Enforcement Executive Development Program and Leadership Trilogy and attended the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange to Israel.

A long-time resident of Newton County, Georgia, Oliver is married to Aimee and has five children and one granddaughter. He is exceptionally active in his community, serving on several youth-focused organizations as a board member.

Tom C. Rawlings was appointed in February 2019 by Governor Brian Kemp to serve as Director of the State Division of Family and Children Services, where he supports the efforts of over 8,000 DFCS employees who protect Georgia’s most vulnerable children and assist the state’s struggling families. He previously served as Interim Director of the agency under Governor Nathan Deal. Prior to joining DFCS, Tom served as Georgia’s Child Advocate for the Protection of Children and helped lead efforts to improve our state’s child protection system. Governor Deal appointed him to the Office of the Child Advocate post in January 2017, and he also served as the Director of that agency from 2007-2010 under Governor Sonny Perdue.

An honors graduate of both Duke University and the University of Georgia School of Law, he earned his Masters’ degree from Oxford University with distinction in International Human Rights Law. From 2000-2007, he served as the first full-time juvenile court judge in the Middle Judicial Circuit, where he oversaw juvenile justice and child protection cases in five counties.

After serving his first term as the state children's ombudsman, Tom and his family moved to Guatemala in 2010, where he directed a child sexual abuse prosecution and treatment team as the country director for International Justice Mission. Certified by the National Association of Counsel for Children as a child welfare law specialist, Tom is a former Fulbright Senior Specialist in Law and is the author of Georgia Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: Policy, Practice and Procedure, updated regularly.

A native of Sandersville, Tom and his wife, Kay, now live in Atlanta and have three sons.

Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H., was appointed commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health by Governor Brian Kemp in March 2019. As commissioner, Dr. Toomey oversees 159 county health departments in 18 health districts, and various public health programs.

Before her appointment to commissioner, Dr. Toomey served as Director of the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness. She led the department’s transition to become the Fulton County Board of Health, continuing as district health director until December 2018

An epidemiologist and board-certified family practitioner, Dr. Toomey’s career in public health is long and distinguished, holding key leadership positions with the State of Georgia and both national and international leadership positions with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She served as the CDC’s Country Director in Botswana. In addition to other leadership positions with the CDC, Dr. Toomey previously served as the Director of the Division of Public Health with the Georgia Department of Human Resources.

Dr. Toomey earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Smith College. As a Fulbright Scholar, she studied indigenous healing practices in Peru. Dr. Toomey earned her M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Harvard University. In 1985, Dr. Toomey was selected as a Pew Health Policy Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. While in San Francisco, she served on committees looking at the initial cases of emergent HIV.

Richard Woods was born in Pensacola, Florida and while growing up in a military family, lived in California, Hawaii and Virginia before moving to Georgia. He graduated from Fitzgerald High School, and went on to receive a Bachelor’s Degree from Kennesaw State University and a Master’s Degree from Valdosta State University.

Woods has over 25 years of pre-k through 12th grade experience in public education. Woods was a high school teacher for 14 years, serving as department chair and teacher mentor. During his tenure, he was also selected as Teacher of the Year. For eight years Woods served in various administrative roles such as assistant principal, principal, curriculum director, testing coordinator, pre-k director, and alternative school director.

Woods also brings a business background to the superintendent's position, having been a purchasing agent for a national/multi-national laser company and a former small business owner.

He and his wife Lisha, a retired 30-year educator, are long-time residents of Tifton, GA.