Kate Kelly

Kelly married J. Neil Ransom in the Salt Lake Temple in 2006. The couple were "childless by choice". On March 14, 2016 Kelly confirmed she had divorced her husband and had started a relationship with Jack Waters. In an interview with John Dehlin, Kelly confirmed she no longer has a belief in the LDS Church.

Kelly no longer claims any religious affiliation. In October 2015 she participated in the pseudo-ordination of a female Roman Catholic priest coordinated by the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests, an organization claiming affiliation with the Catholic Church. The Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City issued a statement claiming they "had no prior knowledge of this event and is sad that it is taking place". Ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood goes against canon law and any known participants are automatically excommunicated.

In May 2013, Kelly co-founded Ordain Women, an organization advocating for the ordination of women to the priesthood in the LDS Church. Kelly was requested by local church leaders to cease her campaign. Kelly subsequently demonstrated on Temple Square during the church's April 2014 General Conference, after which she was excommunicated in June 2014 in absentia after declining to attend a disciplinary council.

Kelly graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 2006. While at BYU, she organized a campus protest of nearly 100 students concerning the firing of a university employee for criticizing student elections. Kelly went on to earn a law degree from American University in 2012. In September 2015, Kelly joined Planned Parenthood as a strategic advocate and policy counsel. Kelly also joined the Center for Constitutional Rights and also worked as a researcher for United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva.

Kathleen Marie Kelly (born October 29, 1980), known as Kate Kelly, is an American feminist, human rights lawyer, and Mormon feminist who co-founded Ordain Women, an organization advocating for the ordination of women to the priesthood in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Kelly was excommunicated from the LDS Church in 2014.

Kelly was born in 1980 in Arizona to Jim and Donna Kelly as the first of four children. She grew up in Hood River, Oregon, with both her parents working outside the home. Both parents were converts to the LDS Church, and her father at one time served as bishop of a local congregation.