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Jill Kelley is a Lebanese-American philanthropy, activism, and advisor. She is also a former South Korean Honorary Consul, and a former honorary ambassador to U.S. Central Command under Jim Mattis. Jill Kelley e-mails depict a striving Tampa socialite and a smitten military brass. The Washington Post. Craig Whitlock, February 3, 2015. She was an advisor to CIA-Director David Petraeus. She is president and founder of ”Military Diplomacy Strategies", an international advisory firm that advises embassies and multi-national companies to foster military and economic partnerships.
Her parents immigrated to the United States in 1976 and opened a Middle Eastern restaurant in Voorhees, New Jersey in 1988. Jill graduated from Lower Moreland High School in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania in 1993. She then worked with a physician as a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She met Scott Kelley, a cancer surgeon, and the two married in 1998. The couple has three children.
Since the early 2000s, Kelley and her husband have been known for their lavish parties, with guest lists including military leaders and other dignitaries. Their parties in the Tampa area include bashes for the Gasparilla Pirate Festival. These include parties at their house in Tampa, and various events in Washington, D.C.
In 2021, Kelley was invited to serve as the Executive Director on the Board of Directors of Ionic Rare Earth, a publicly traded company specializing in rare earth heavy magnets and mining. The board expressed confidence that her appointment would greatly strengthen key relationships with global organizations, citing her extensive experience in high-level international leadership roles and her history of engaging with royals, presidents, prime ministers, and parliamentarians to advance military, security, and economic partnerships.
In April 2020, Kelley's husband, Dr Scott Kelley, set up and paid for a free nationwide COVID-19 hotline, a public service using AI that Dr. Kelley engineered to offer free triaging and medical evaluation to all Americans.During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kelleys funded a free hotline to serve marginalized and economically challenged communities. The hotline used artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics to deliver free test kits and/or telemedicine appointments to patients in need.
In 2021, Kelley assisted in the evacuation of hundreds of Afghans from their country when the Taliban seized power. Kelley, whose Catholic family immigrated to the US to escape religious persecution in Lebanon, continues to work through her diplomatic ties to extract more Afghan refugees from danger zones. In an interview about her work using multinational allies, Kelley was referred to as “a diplomatic fixer”.Kelley also provided support to rescue Christians and LGBTQ into Canada and has noted the special risks of these marginalized groups.
On June 3, 2013, Kelley filed a privacy lawsuit against the federal government alleging that investigators violated her Privacy Rights by unlawfully searching her personal emails and disclosing false descriptions of the nature of them to the media. In addition, she stated "false and untrue headlines created a media sideshow" at her expense, including her being wrongfully implicated in the extramarital affair between Petraeus and Broadwell.
In 2016, Kelley published a memoir about her role in the Petraeus scandal.
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