Wayne Turnage
Chief of Staff
State of Virginia
Office of Governor Timothy
M. Kaine
A
graduate of Ohio State University (Masters of Public Administration, 1982)
and North Carolina A&T State University (B.S, 1980), Wayne Turnage was
appointed by Governor-Elect Kaine in December 2005 as Deputy Chief of Staff. Wayne
accepted this position after serving a dual role as Director of Policy and
Research at the Virginia Department
of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) and
Advisor for Special Projects for Governor Mark R. Warner (2004 – 2006).
He assumed the role of Governor Kaine's Chief of Staff in May 2007.
Prior to 2004, Wayne worked as Governor Warner’s Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources (2002 – 2004), and as a researcher for both public and private organizations (1985 – 2002). Most of his research career was spent at the Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC), where he was the principal author of more than 15 studies. Notable among these were studies on healthcare and public safety, which addressed issues such as the adequacy of Virginia’s Medicaid hospital reimbursement system, the use of Medicaid asset transfers and estate recovery, and the financing of Medicaid long-term care services.
While working in the Governor’s Cabinet, Wayne also authored a study on funding the mission-related activities of Virginia’s Academic Health Centers. The National Legislative Program Evaluation Society selected two of his studies for awards for excellence in research methods.