Kimberly Jackson will step down from her role as chief of staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs in July, Military Times reported Friday.
In a statement announcing her move, Jackson said she will leave VA to spend more time with her family. She will continue to serve as the department’s chief of staff through July 13.
Jackson assumed the chief of staff role at VA in October 2023, serving as a senior adviser to the department’s secretary and deputy secretary on delivering care and benefits to veterans.
Before her stint at the VA, she was deputy assistant secretary of defense for force readiness at the Department of Defense.
Her career at DOD included time as a planner in three special operations commands, special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation directorate and key positions related to security assistance policy within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
Jackson allso served as an international and defense researcher at RAND and spent eight years as a naval reserve officer.