Al Carter

Alfred (“Al”) Carter is Chief of Staff of the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs in Largo, Fla. The retired Army Colonel provides operational and administrative oversight of the department’s functional entities and activities involving nearly 1,260 employees with an annual budget of more than $112 million; impacting more than 1.5 million veterans and their families. He was appointed as Agency Chief of Staff in 2011 following his retirement after 28 years of military service; transitioning as the Agency’s Deputy Executive Director in 2012 and again resuming the Chief of Staff role in 2019.