Southwestern's criminal justice program offers MANY opportunities for students to hear from professionals in the field and visit departments and agencies. During the 2019-20 academic year, the program had more than 30 guest speakers and heard from 11 state agencies outside of Iowa! The criminal justice program has partnerships with numerous agencies.
Guest Speakers:
September:
- Conservation Officer Corey Carlton (Iowa DNR)
- Terry Cowman (Iowa DCI)
- Captain Robert Johnson (Iowa MVE)
- Lew Jordan (Army CID)
- Chief Paul Van Meer (Creston Police)
- Tim Kenyon (Union County Attorney)
October:
- Special Agent Wayne Brosam (Iowa Fire Marshal Division)
- Leslie Sticht & Dana Wahlberg (Minnesota ECN)
- Lisa Jeanes (Decatur County Attorney)
- Jeff Wright (Iowa State Public Defender)
- Iowa National Guard
- Anthony Ferguson Jr. ( Victims Rights Coordinator, Iowa Attorney Generals Office)
- Special Agent Russell Smith (Iowa BNSF Police)
- Trooper Nathan Elwood (Iowa State Patrol)
- Chris Judge (Dept of Homeland Security)
November:
- Ben Anders (Presentence investigator 5th Judicial district)
January:
- Iowa DNE Special Agent Sean McCullough
- Greater Regional Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners
February:
- Deputy Little (Madison County Sheriff’s Office)
- Officer Mike Wood (Winterset Police)
- Officer Rumley DARE Officer ( Osceola Police Department)
March:
- Kito Bess (Chief Probation Officer, Minnesota)
- Deputy Little & Officer Wood ( Madison County Sheriff & Winterset Police Department)
- Trooper Flaherty & Sgt Taylor (Iowa State Patrol)
- B. Bales (Intelligence community)
- Sheriff James Mendrick (DuPage County Sheriff’s Office, Illinois)
April:
- Chief Jill Lees (Indiana University- Bloomington Police Department)
- Trooper First Class Kelly Grant (Connecticut State Police)
- Mike Ferjak (Former Special agent with the Iowa Attorney Generals Office Human Trafficking task force)
- Trooper Aaron Allen (Pennsylvania State Police)
- Special Agent Michelle Stevenson (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
- Natalie Ammons (Georgia Bureau of Investigation)
- Deputy Chief Carrie Jacobs (Iowa State University Police)
- Nelly Miles (Georgia Bureau of Investigation)
- Troopers Garcia & Francis (NY State Police)
- Ted Golden (Drug Enforcement Administration)
May:
- Trooper Bush (Kansas Highway Patrol)
- Deputy Jessy Bailey (King County Sheriff Office, Washington)
- Assistant Director Art Rabon (5th Judicial District of Iowa)
June:
- Sgt Schumann (Illinois State Police)
- Trooper Flick (Nebraska State Police)
- Mike Lang (retired prison administrator)
- Investigator Washington (Maryland State Police)
Work Site Visits:
- Des Moines Police Department
- Iowa DPS HQ
- Camp Dodge
- Iowa Supreme Court
- Ankeny Police Department HQ
- Office of the State Medical Examiner’s Office
- Missouri State Highway Patrol