Tina GOODE

Tina Goode currently serves the Department of Criminal Justice Training as a staff assistant within the commissioner’s office and oversees the Human Resources Branch. She began her career at the agency in 2017 as Human Resources Branch manager.

Goode has served as a Justice and Public Safety Cabinet employee for nearly 30 years, and has devoted her career to advising the Cabinet in personnel matters. Prior to DOCJT, she spent 19 years working within the Office of Management and Administrative Services, moving up the ranks from personnel administrator/personnel management specialist to executive staff assistant. Goode served as deputy chief of staff for Justice Cabinet Sec. John Tilley before joining DOCJT.

Goode’s career with the state of Kentucky began in 1989 when she joined the Kentucky Department of Corrections’ Probation and Parole Office in Lawrenceburg. She served as secretary chief there for about eight years, followed by more than a year at the agency’s Frankfort Career Development Center as an administrative secretary.

Goode holds an associate’s degree in business administration from Sullivan University. She has one daughter, Emma Thompson.