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Judy Fitzgerald
currently serves as the Chief of Staff for
the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and
Developmental Disabilities a $1 billion dollar agency with
over 5000 employees. She was appointed to the role after
two years of serving as the Deputy Commissioner of
Programs for Commissioner Frank W. Berry. Judy is a
Social worker with a long standing interest in behavioral
health and public service delivery systems.
Prior to her appointment at DBHDD, Ms. Fitzgerald
worked in a variety of human service settings. She served
as Vice President of Strategy for View Point Health, one of
Georgia’s twenty-five public 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. She 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.
Judy earned her Master’s degree in Social work from the University of Georgia. She and
her husband Tim Gould live in Smyrna with their two children, Abbie and Jack.
Judy Fitzgerald, LCSW
Chief of Staff
GA Dept. of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD)
Contact: 404.463.7945
Email:
judy.fitzgerald@dbhdd.ga.govDr. Joseph Parks
currently serves as the Director of
Missouri MO HealthNet Division (Missouri Medicaid) in
the Missouri Department of Social Services. He is a
Distinguished Research Professor of Science at Missouri
Institute of Mental Health with the University of
Missouri, St. Louis. He is the Senior Medical Advisor for
the National Council for Behavioral Health and national
behavioral health representative at large for The Joint
Commission. He practices outpatient psychiatry at Family
Health Center, a federally funded community health