Lieutenant Colonel Eric T. Olson, acting superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, has announced that Lieutenant Kevin C. Kelley (left) is being promoted to the rank of captain and designated director of the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division, General Headquarters, Jefferson City, effective January 1, 2019.
Kelley joined the Patrol in 1994, as a member of the 67th Recruit Class. After graduating from the Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy, he was assigned to Troop B, Zone 8, Marion and Ralls counties. He worked in Zone 1 in Macon, Zone 10 in Moberly and Zone 5 in Kirksville, prior to being promoted to corporal in 2003. As a corporal, he was designated assistant zone supervisor and assigned to Troop B, Zone 3 in Linn and Chariton counties.
In 2008, Kelley was promoted to sergeant, designated zone supervisor, and assigned to Zone 10 in Randolph and Monroe counties. Later in 2008, he transferred to Troop B, Zone 12, to the newly-created position of commercial-vehicle enforcement trooper, and he supervised commercial-vehicle operations in the Macon area. He transferred to the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division, General Headquarters in Jefferson City in 2009. Kelley was promoted to lieutenant and designated assistant director of the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division in 2013.
Kelley grew up in Brookfield and graduated from Brookfield High School in 1988. He graduated from Culver-Stockton College in Canton, MO, in 1992, with a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice. He and his wife, Cassi (McCollum) have four children: Ashley, Brooke, Katie and Kade.

Picture provided courtesy of the Missouri State Highway Patrol.