Linda Lewis is Regional Administrator for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for the Kansas City Region. In this capacity, she provides leadership, direction and coordination of ACF programs with states, tribes and communities to achieve program results for low-income, disadvantaged families, children and individuals.

ACF programs include Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Head Start - Early Head Start, Child Support and Enforcement, Child Care, Child Welfare including Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, Safe and Stable Families, Child Abuse and Neglect, Developmental Disabilities and Runaway and Homeless Youth. The Kansas City Region includes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.

Lewis is experienced in leadership, management and development of human service programs and in building community and state partnerships. During her federal service, she has directed the Regional JOBS and child care programs and played key roles in child welfare reforms and in major organizational restructuring and development initiatives. As the Regional Director’s intergovernmental liaison, she worked with congressional constituent offices and with state legislative staff and executives on Block Grant implementation. Prior to federal service, Lewis had broad experience in child welfare practice, management and administration with Missouri's Department of Social Services.

Lewis' work to build partnerships focuses on working parents and their children, infants and toddlers, and child welfare. Among the results of these partnerships were school-aged child care program models in the Kansas City School District, a national model community-based program for drug-exposed infants and their parents, and Early Head Start Partnerships with Missouri and Kansas.

Lewis received her Master of Social Work degree from Washington University (St. Louis) and her undergraduate degree from St. Louis University.