Kelly Walenda

Kelly Walenda joined what was then Kennedy Health in 2014 as Vice President/Assistant General Counsel. She was promoted to Senior Vice President-Legal Services/Chief Counsel in 2017 and also serves as the Enterprise Chief Privacy Officer for all of Jefferson. Ms. Walenda has played a key role in moving the organization forward in many key areas, including: HIPAA, employment and labor; contracting policies and other initiatives. She also held a leadership role in executing the legal work involved in Kennedy Health’s merger with Jefferson Health, completed in 2017. Ms. Walenda’s professional career includes eleven years as Assistant General Counsel with Virtua and 10 years with Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia, where she was an Associate with the firm, specializing in labor and employment law. A 1989 graduate of Illinois State University, she received her Juris Doctorate law degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, in 1993. A member of the American Bar Association and licensed to practice law in New Jersey, Ms. Walenda is also a member of the New Jersey Hospital Association. The mother of three, she resides with her family in Voorhees, NJ.