Gary Cordner is academic director in the Police Academy/Education and Training Section of the Baltimore Police Department. Most recently he served as chief research advisor for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) LEADS Scholars Program. He was a CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) Commissioner for nine years and has been associated with the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing since its inception. He is Professor Emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University, where he served as Dean of the College of Justice & Safety. Earlier in his career, he was a police officer and police chief in Maryland and obtained his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
Cordner was founding editor of Police Quarterly and is a past editor of the American Journal of Police; author of Police Administration (10th edition); and co-author of Police & Society (8th edition). He authored several monographs for the COPS Office and NIJ, was co-PI of the National Police Research Platform and is a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).
