Linda Janes is the Chief Operating Officer at Alvis, Inc in Columbus, Ohio in the USA and serves as the ICPA Community Corrections Network Chairperson. She has more than 40 years of public and private sector experience. She was Assistant Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) and Assistant Director of the Ohio Department of Youth Services before joining Alvis in 2017.

Linda oversees all client programming for the five services lines at Alvis. She is data-focused and practices outcome-driven decision-making. Linda presents extensively, writes numerous journal articles, and lends her expertise for media interviews.

Linda is the Immediate Past President of the Ohio Community Corrections Association (OCCA), the President of the Ohio Justice Alliance for Community Correction (OJACC), serves on the Ohio Public Defender Commission and on the American Correctional Association (ACA) Commission on Accreditation for Corrections. Linda us the Past Chair and current Board of Trustee member of the Community Housing Network.

Linda has earned the Barry Mastrine Award from the Franklin County ADAMH Board; Leadership Award and President’s Award from OCCA, Director’s Impact Award and Reginald Wilkinson Excellence in Management Award from ODRC, and Dr. Bennett J. Cooper Lifetime Achievement Award from OJACC.