education insights | January 13, 2026

Ryan Kelley wife: Is the GOP candidate married?

Ryan D Kelley
Ryan D Kelley

Ryan Kelley, the GOP candidate for Michigan governor, has been arrested on misdemeanor charges stemming from the January 6, 2021 Capitol breach.

Ryan Kelley wife: Is the GOP candidate married?

Ryan Kelley is a real estate broker, who owns his own firm, and serves clients across Michigan.

His education began at Jenison High School where he graduated in 1999. He then attended Grand Rapids Community College and graduated with a degree in Electronics Engineering.

After his graduation, he began to work for the CWA (Communication Workers of America) union at Ameritech, which later became SBC and now AT&T.

He left At&T in 2011 for an entrepreneurial life, where he built a real estate investment firm.

Kelley is a family man. He is married with five children and the family resides in Allendale. Before settling in Allendale, for 5 months in 2019, the family traveled from coast to coast, living in their RV.

Thereafter, he was appointed to the Allendale Township Planning Commission.