Dr. Thomas A. Johnson currently serves as a faculty member of the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He also is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Sciences Institute in Livermore, CA. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the SANS Technology Institute. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Michigan State University and his doctorate in Criminology from the University of California-Berkeley.
Dr. Johnson has developed programs in Cybercrime and Forensic Computer Investigation and also founded the Graduate National Security program offered at two of our National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratories in California and New Mexico.
Dr. Johnson also currently serves as a member of the FBI Infraguard program and also is a member of the Electronic Crime Task Force, New York Field Office, and San Francisco Field Office, U.S. Secret Service. The U.S. Attorney General appointed Dr. Johnson a member of the Information Technology Working Group, and he served as Chair, Task Force Group on ombating High Technology Crime for the National Institute of Justice.
Dr. Johnson was also appointed an advisor to the Judicial Council of California on the Court Technology Task Force by the California Supreme Court. Dr. Johnson has published 6 books and 13 referred articles and holds copyright on 4 software programs, and his chapter 'Infrastructure Warriors: A Threat to the U.S. Homeland by Organized Crime' was published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College ('. . . to insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense . . ., ' Papers From the Conference on Homeland Protection, 2000). In addition to lecturing at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, he has also lectured at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and numerous universities.
Dr. Johnson has appeared in both State and U.S. Federal courts as an expert witness, and was a member of the Select Ad Hoc Presidential Investigative Committee and consultant to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in the case of Sirhan B. Sirhan regarding evaluation of ballistics and physical evidence concerning the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
