Kody H. Kinsley

Kody H. Kinsley
Kinsley in 2024
Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
In office
January 1, 2022 – January 12, 2025
GovernorRoy Cooper
Preceded byMandy Cohen
Succeeded byDevdutta Sangvai
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management
In office
July 2016 – March 2018
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byBrodi Fontenot
Succeeded byDavid F. Eisner
Personal details
Born (1985-07-03) July 3, 1985
PartyDemocratic Party (United States)
EducationBrevard College (BS)
University of California, Berkeley (MPP)

Kody H. Kinsley (born July 3, 1985) is an American public servant and public health official. He is currently a senior policy advisor at the Institute for Policy Solutions at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. He previously served as the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and was the first openly gay cabinet secretary in North Carolina history.

Kinsley is a Fellow in the Aspen Institute's Civil Society Fellowship. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at both the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.