Colonel Sexton serves as Chief, Force Analysis Branch (J33 FA) of the Joint Deployment Operations Division (J33) to the Director for Operations, Plans, Logistics and Engineering (J3/4). The Force Analysis (FA) Branch is responsible for monitoring Joint Force readiness to provide situational awareness to USJFCOM senior leadership to enable timely and effective Global Force Management and Joint Force Provider decision-making. FA specifically provides analyses on unit readiness, force availability, capabilities, organizational structure, and training assessments of those forces assigned to USJFCOM. FA provides subject matter experts to participate in rotational planning for forces in future years, force sufficiency analyses, advisement on Global Force Management (GFM) matters in the development and execution of the Defense Readiness Reporting System, and leads USJFCOM's coordination efforts for Ballistic Missile Defense Force Management. Further, as the Department of Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS) and Global Status of Resource and Training System (GSORTS) enterprise manager for USJFCOM, FA represents USJFCOM's equities within the joint readiness community of interest.

Colonel Sexton received his Air Force commission through the ROTC program at Michigan State University in 1988. He is a veteran of Operations DESERT SHIELD/STORM, PROVIDE PROMISE, JOINT ENDEAVOR, IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) and ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF). He is a command pilot with more than 4,700 total flying hours and 530 combat flying hours, primarily in the C-130 Hercules. His flying career includes supporting army airborne operations at Pope AFB, NC, providing humanitarian supply during the height of the Bosnian Conflict (PROVIDE PROMISE), formal training unit instruction and flight examination at Little Rock AFB, AR, and supporting OIF and OEF contingency operations from Pope AFB, NC and Dyess AFB, TX. He served on five deployments and one remote tour to Southwest Asia. In his recent tours to the CENTCOM AOR he served as Chief of Safety, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing; Commander, 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron; and Deputy Commander, 386th Expeditionary Operations Group. He commanded the 317th Operations Support Squadron and served as the Deputy Commander, 317th Airlift Group, at Dyess AFB, TX. Previous staff experience includes Requirements Manager for the C-130 Avionic Modernization Program, Plans and Programs Division, Air Mobility Command, where he managed the full range of acquisitions and requirements for the USAF C-130 fleet.

Colonel Sexton's education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in System Science Engineering from Michigan State University and a Master of Education Administration from the University of Oklahoma. He also holds a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington D.C., where he attended prior to his current assignment at USJFCOM.

His decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal and the Air Force Achievement Medal.

Shannon Kendrick serves as District Director for Congressman Scott Rigell for Virginia's 2nd Congressional District. 

Shannon previously served as the Assistant Director of Enrollment at Regent University's Robertson School of Government. While at Regent, she received the 2010 President's Award for Excellence and served as Coalitions Coordinator for the "Scott Rigell for Congress" campaign.

Shannon is a graduate of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma, where she served as President of the Gamma Beta Phi National Honor Society, was recipient of the 2008 Government School of Arts and Cultural Studies Outstanding Academic Achievement Award and earned her Bachelor's degree with Magna Cum Laude Honors in Government and Law.

She has served with the Leadership Institute, the National College Republican Committee, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and various political campaigns.

She is currently completing her Masters of Business Administration at Regent University and she is Founder and President of The National Black Conservative Alliance.

CeCe Heil is Senior Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice.  She specializes in public policy and global legal matters including the United Nations. She heads a team of lawyers handling cases in defense of life, protection of US National Security interests and dealing with Islamic extremism.  She is the U.S. counsel who facilitated "baby Joseph's" transfer to a United States Hospital from Canada and is a co-author of "Shari'ah Law: Radical Islam's Threat to the U.S. Constitution"
Before joining the ACLJ, Heil worked in private practice in Missouri and Tennessee serving as counsel to many internationally recognized clients and is on the board of several national ministries. She is a recognized leader in her work to have pro-family, pro-life and pro-free enterprise policies enacted, including being a candidate for Congress. Her service and knowledge as a Constitutional scholar earned her the support of Sarah Palin and was one of a handful of candidates named as a "Mama Grizzly" by the former Alaska Governor.

Heil is a 1992 graduate of Regent University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in California, Missouri and Tennessee.

Dr. Jorge E. Maciel is a senior research scientist at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) in BioSciences and serves as the principal investigator for research efforts in both biological agent detection and the computational evaluation of next-generation sequencing technologies. Dr. Maciel is an experienced molecular microbiologist with 10+ years of research experience, specializing and serving as a subject matter expert in the areas of Infectious Diseases and Immunology. Dr. Maciel actively supports the ECBC BioChemistry Branch at developing new antibodies against various biological and chemical agents of interest, facilitating knowledge in biological threat agents and the scientific principles which limit the effectiveness of current biological detectors, samples, assays and countermeasures. Dr. Maciel joined Excet, Inc. in supporting ECBC upon completion of a National Research Council (NRC) Post-doctoral Research Fellowship with the BioDefense Branch and was the recipient of a 2008 U.S. Army Seedling Initiative Program. In addition to his laboratory experience working with various toxins, Dr. Maciel successfully developed a novel portable ricin activity detection substrate and assay, leading to a provisional patent. Dr. Maciel received his B.S. from the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN) and awarded his Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology from Johns Hopkins University - School of Public Health (Baltimore, MD).

Deputy United States Marshal Nick Proffitt has been a Deputy Marshal for 18 years where he currently serves in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Deputy Marshal Proffitt will be presenting an overview of the duties and responsibilities of the U.S. Marshals Service. The presentation will cover a brief history of the Service, and will introduce attendees to the current and future responsibilities of "America's Oldest Law Enforcement Agency".

Dr. David J. Meyer serves as Associate Professor of Government in the Department of Government, History and Criminal Justice in the School of Undergraduate Studies at Regent University. He received his BA in Russian Area Studies from Drew University (Madison, NJ), his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in the City of New York. He earned the graduate certificate of the W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Studies of the Former Soviet Union, equivalent to a Masters of Russian Area Studies. He has taught as Full-Time Adjunct at Touro College (New York, NY), Visiting Docent at Saratov State University (Saratov, Russia), and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Cedarville University (Cedarville, Ohio). In 2009, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies selected Dr. Meyer as an Academic Fellow to participate in an all-expense paid seminar, "Defending Democracy, Defeating Terrorism," in Israel from May 30 - June 10. The program features an intensive, 10-day course on terrorism and the threat it poses to democratic societies.

Dr. Meyer is considered an expert on Russia and the former Soviet Republics. He is also fluent in the Russian language. His specialties include international relations, comparative politics, ethnic conflict resolution, revolutions, federalism, and the history and politics of Africa, Western Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia. His most recent article is, "Collective Bail's War Against Learning: How an Instructor Can Combat Krugovaya Poruka." The Journal of Ethnographic and Quantitative Research in Education. 2 (October, 2007).

Stephen Raptis serves as an Associate Professor in the department of Government, History and Criminal Justice in the School of Undergraduate Studies at Regent University. Prior to joining Regent University, Stephen was an adjunct instructor with the State University of New York-Empire State College in Saratoga Springs, NY for three years. Stephen's background is in law enforcement and he is passionate about the criminal justice discipline. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Law & Society from Skidmore College, working for several years as a police officer in Upstate New York before completing his Master's Degree in Criminal Justice at Boston University.

While working on his graduate degree, Stephen spent abundant time in South Africa studying their criminal justice system and unique crime challenges. It was in South Africa that he met his lovely wife. In addition, he spent a significant amount of time doing missions work in both urban townships and rural villages. Practically speaking, this consisted of planting sustainable vegetable gardens for the hungry and sharing basic hunger alleviation strategies. Many of the individuals he worked with were widows and orphans, a reality that made Isaiah 58 especially come alive for him. He and his wife still maintain close ties with South Africa and actively partner in relief efforts there.

Special Agent Hank Crawford has been a member of the Virginia State Police for 17 years.  After graduating from the State Police Academy in 1994, he was assigned to Gloucester County where he served as a Trooper for ten years.

In 2004, Crawford was promoted to Special Agent and assigned to the Drug Enforcement Section within the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations.  After eighteen months in the Drug Enforcement Section he transferred to the General Investigation Section which investigates various misdemeanor and felony crimes committed within the Commonwealth.

Special Agent Crawford's primary role with the State Police today is that of a Forensic Psychophysiologist, more commonly referred to as a polygrapher.  He graduated from the Baxter School of Lie Detection in San Diego, California in 2006, and has performed over 250 polygraph examinations.  Crawford is also a graduate of the Virginia Forensic Science Academy and serves as a crime scene investigator. 

In addition to his service to the Commonwealth of Virginia, Special Agent Crawford has over twenty-five years of military experience as a flight medic and military policeman.  He is a veteran of both Desert Shield/Storm and Iraqi Freedom.

Crawford is a 1990 graduate of Chapman University in Orange, California where he earned a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Social Sciences.

SA Crawford will be presenting an overview regarding the use of polygraph in detecting deception in criminal investigations and in national security matters.

Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riano serves as the Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at Regent University. He is also an Associate Professor of Government, the Director of General Education for the University, and Chair of the Department of Government, History, and Criminal Justice.

Dr. Moreno-Riano has a distinguished scholarly career including serving as a Fellow in the Lehrman American Studies Center, an Academic Fellow in the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Fellow in the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at the University of Cincinnati, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University (Budapest). In 2008, Dr. Moreno-Riano was invited to inaugurate the Iwata Distinguished Lectures in Politics, Economics, and Christian Ethics at Biola University with five endowed lectures. Dr. Moreno-Riano's areas of expertise include the history of political philosophy with a special emphasis in early modern political ideas, democratic theory, and political theology and ethics. Dr. Moreno-Riano's publications include five authored/edited books as well as numerous chapters and journal articles in peer-reviewed books and academic journals. His latest publications include the edited The World of Marsilius of Padua (Brepols, 2007) and the co-authored The Prospect of Internet Democracy (Ashgate, 2009). In 2007, Dr. Moreno-Riano was the runner-up in ISI's Templeton Culture of Enterprise contest for his article "Natural Law and Modern Economic Theory." Dr Moreno-Riano has given invited and accepted scholarly lectures in various prestigious national and international scholarly conferences. Dr. Moreno-Riano is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Association for Political Theory.
Dr. Moreno-Riano has been featured in numerous television, radio, and print interviews or publications through such outlets as CBN News, WAVY-TV (NBC local affiliate), AOL News, Voice of America Radio, Voice of America China Bureau, American Family Radio, WCDR Front Page, Washington Post, Washington Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, Richmond Dispatch, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and Portfolio Weekly. He holds a B.A. (cum laude) from Cedarville University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Cincinnati.