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36 YEARS PUBLIC SERVICE
Jeffrey H. Norwitz completed an undergraduate degree in criminal justice at Eastern Kentucky University in 1974. After graduation, he
was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Military Police Corps and completed Airborne School before assignment to the 50th Ordnance Company where his duties involved security of nuclear weapons. He concluded three years active duty as the executive officer of the 4th Military Police Company, Fort Carson, Colorado.
Mr. Norwitz joined the El Paso County Sheriff's Office in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, in 1978. As a patrol officer, he received awards for heroism, life saving, and superior performance. His specialty assignments included SWAT team sniper and firearms instructor, as well as commander of the bomb squad, responding to more than 500 incidents involving explosives. He was engaged in many prominent cases involving paramilitary groups and domestic terrorism.
He joined the civilian ranks of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in 1985 and served tours of duty stateside and overseas specializing in counterintelligence, counterespionage, and counterterrorism. This included an assignment at Camp Delta, Guantánamo, as part of the Criminal Investigation Task Force interviewing al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters (2003–04). His last assignment was as NCIS supervisory special agent responsible for counterintelligence and counterespionage throughout New England.
In 2001, Mr. Norwitz earned an MA in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College and joined the faculty teaching National Security Decision Making as the NCIS adviser. Mr. Norwitz also held the John Nicholas Brown Academic Chair of Counterterrorism at the Naval War College. Mr. Norwitz lectured extensively across the country and for allied militaries on matters relating to terrorism, intelligence, and homeland security. 
He retired from NCIS in 2009 and most recently was a Senior Instructor in the Counterterrorism Division at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). He is a certified & accredited law enforcement instructor.
PUBLICATIONS
His articles have been published in the Naval War College Review, Military Review, Journal of Homeland Security, Officer Review, and Singapore's Home Team Academy Journal. His writing has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese for publication in South America.
His scholarly work also appears in the books Homeland Security and Intelligence (Praeger, 2010); Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency (Naval War College, 2008); Defending the Homeland: Historical Perspectives on Radicalism, Terrorism, and State Responses (West Virginia University Press, 2007); Practical Bomb Scene Investigation (CRC Press, 2006); American Defense Policy, 8th ed. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005); and Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment (McGraw-Hill, 2003).
AWARDS
In 1994, the Honorable John H. Dalton, secretary of the Navy, personally presented Mr. Norwitz the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal for highly classified national security intelligence work. He received a second Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal for his intelligence and counterterrorism accomplishments during the 1998 hostilities of Operation Desert Fox. In 2006, he was voted Eastern Kentucky University’s College of Business and Technology’s Distinguished Alumnus. In 2008, he was awarded the Defense Department's Counterintelligence and Law Enforcement Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2009 he spoke at the United Nations on matters concerning global water security. Upon his retirement from NCIS in 2009, he was awarded the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal for his academic achievements and the Defense Department Civilian Service Medal for the Global War on Terrorism.