Jim Martin served nearly 23 years in Law Enforcement, serving as a Lieutenant and Assistant Jail Commander with the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office in Southern Indiana. During his career with the Sheriff’s Office, he served as a Motor Patrol Deputy, a K9 handler, a supervisor in the jail and the Court Security Unit, as well as an investigator in the Professional Standards Unit. His duties as the assistant jail commander included serving as the command staff liaison for the Jail’s medical unit and the Community Mental Health Task Force and was part of a transition team during the building of a new jail facility in 2006, overseeing the successful movement of inmates from one facility to another. Jim oversaw the converting from paper records to an electronic jail management system, the move to an electronic kiosk commissary system, and a complete transition from face-to-face inmate visitation to total video visitation. He also established a robust field-training program within the jail, which led to a state approved jail officer training school.

 

Jim is also an adjunct professor at the University of Evansville providing instruction in public service administration and organizational leadership. Jim currently serves as Vice President of Program Development with the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). During the last several years, he spoken nationally on topics covering correctional health care, mental health issues and care in our jails and prisons, tactical communications for health care workers, building better working relationships between custody and health care, and during the last two years, served as the representative for NCCHC’s response to COVID-19.