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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.
Currently serves as Commissioner of 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 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
twentyǦfive 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
Commissioner
Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD)
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judy.fitzgerald@dbhdd.ga.govRepresentative Spencer Frye
was first elected to the
Georgia House of Representatives in 2012, representing
District 118 (Athens/Winterville) and currently serves as the
Executive Director for Athens Habitat for Humanity.
He’s also been a small business owner and a construction
manager, has helped to export American ambulances
overseas, and coǦfounded a company that began by
recapturing recyclable motor oil and which now operates
globally.
As a business owner, nonǦprofit director, and now state
representative, Spencer Frye has met and worked with folks
from all over the community, and successfully balanced the
interests of citizens, private enterprise, and government.
His wife Gretchen is an emergency room nurse at Athens
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