Valerie Joy Callister (born 16 June 1950) is a former Australian politician.
She was born in Leongatha to farmer Herbert Charles Callister and Alma Joyce. She attended local state schools and received a Bachelor of Arts from the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, a Diploma of Education from the State College of Victoria, and a Graduate Diploma in Health Administration from La Trobe University. She worked as a schoolteacher, teaching at Traralgon from 1975 to 1981. She joined the Labor Party in 1976, and in a 1981 by-election was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Morwell. She was briefly unseated on a technicality in 1984, but served until 1988, when she retired. Following her retirement she worked as the regional Gippsland coordinator for Alcohol and Drug Services (1989 - 92), the Victorian state director of Greening Australia (1989 - 91), manager of the Moe/Narracan and Traralgon Community Health Centres (1992 - 95), operations manager (1995 - 97) and CEO (1997 - 2003) of the Latrobe Community Health Centre, president of the Latrobe Regional Hospital Board (2000 - 02) and regional director of the Department of Human Services (from 2002).[1]