Cabinet Members & Staff

Cabinet Members

Five Voting Members Appointed by the Governor

Cabinet Chair, Don Hineman, MBA

Farmer/Rancher, Former Kansas State Representative and House Majority Leader

Dr. LeEtta Felter

Business owner and local school board member

Terri Rice

Senior Marketing Manager, Cox Business

Dr. Tara Wallace

Licensed clinician and trauma therapist, adjunct professor and executive director of Lighthouse TCO Foundation

DiAnne Owen Graham

President, Graham Advisors, LLC

Four Voting Members appointed by Legislative Leadership

Renee Erickson

Senator and Senate President appointee

Kristey Williams

Representative and Speaker of the House
appointee

Monica Murnan

House Minority Leader appointee

John Wilson

Senate Minority Leader appointee

Ex-Officio Members

Janet Stanek

Secretary, Kansas Department of Health & Environment (Derik Flerlage & Amy Dean Campmire, Designees)

Blake Flanders, Ph.D.

President & CEO, Kansas Board of Regents (Brandi Wells, Designee)

Melissa Standridge, J.D.

Kansas Supreme Court Justice (Dena Russell-Marino, Designee)

Laura Howard, J.D.

Secretary, Department for Children and Families (Tanya Keys, Designee)

Randy Watson, Ed.D.

Commissioner of Education (Amanda Petersen, Designee)

Matthew Billinger

Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee Coordinator, Kansas Department of Corrections

Cabinet Staff

Melissa Rooker

Executive Director

Dyogga Adegbore

Program Consultant II

Megan Brohaugh

Administrative Specialist

Christie Wyckoff

Early Childhood Coordinator