For Immediate Release:
July 15, 2024
Contact:
Grace Hoge
[email protected]
Governor Kelly Announces
Administration Appointments
TOPEKA— Today, Governor Laura Kelly announced eight appointments to the following state boards, councils, and committee.
Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board
Purpose: To protect the public’s health, safety, and welfare from unlawful or unprofessional practitioners who fall under the boards’ jurisdiction.
Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities
Purpose: To advocate for change to increase productivity, independence, integration, and inclusion of people with developmental disabilities in Kansas communities.
- Anita Breen, Clay Center
- Sarah Mai, Mission
Kansas Board of Healing Arts
Purpose: To regulate 11 health care professions and to ensure these health care professionals meet and maintain certain qualifications to protect the public from incompetent practice, unprofessional conduct, and other proscribed behavior by individuals who have credentials to practice in Kansas.
- Donna Sweet, Wichita
- Vernon Mills, Leavenworth
- Richard Bradbury, Salina (reappointment)
Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee
Purpose: To oversee the implementation of reform measures intended to improve the state's juvenile justice system.
Coordinating Council on Early Childhood Developmental Services
Purpose: To solicit information and opinions from concerned agencies, groups and individuals on proposed policies and recommendations for the delivery of health, education, and social services for young children from birth through age five with or at risk for disabling conditions and for their families.
- Kathy Kersenbrock-Ostmeyer, Colby
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