Joye E. Frost was appointed Director of the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) by President Barack Obama on June 14, 2013. During her previous tenure as OVC's Acting Director and Principal Deputy Director, she launched the Vision 21: Transforming Victims Services initiative to expand the reach and impact of the victim assistance field. She forged closer ties with State Victims of Crime Act administrators and championed the integration of innovation with research in OVC's efforts to build capacity in the field. She fostered a ground-breaking partnership between OVC and the Department of Defense to strengthen support to military victims of sexual assault, and greatly expanded OVC's work to assist victims in Indian Country. She was instrumental in the development of OVC's Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) and Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Training and Technical Assistance Project initiatives and spearheaded a number of OVC initiatives to identify and serve victims of crime with disabilities. She also implemented and oversaw a discretionary grant program to fund comprehensive services to victims of human trafficking. 

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Ms. Frost began her career as a Child Protective Services caseworker in South Texas and worked in the victim assistance, healthcare, and disability advocacy fields for more than 35 years in the U.S. and Europe, including several years working at both the community and headquarters levels for the Department of Army.

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Ms. Frost earned a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Health Services Management from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.