Tracy Plouck is an Executive in Residence at the Ohio University College of Health Sciences and Professions. From 2011 to 2018, Tracy served as a member of Ohio Governor John Kasich’s Cabinet as Director of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Tracy has served twice as the state’s Medicaid Director and also deputy director of both the Ohio Office of Budget and Management and the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities. On a national level, she has been the President of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors and the Vice Chair of the Council of State Governments’ Justice Center.