Louis J. DeAnda

Professor Louis DeAnda joined Tiffin University as an adjunct professor in 2023 and was admitted to the criminal justice faculty as an assistant professor in 2024. His career has been a series of dynamic and exciting domestic and foreign service operations in law enforcement, criminal investigations, and counter-terrorism operations and training.

Before joining our faculty, Professor DeAnda served as a contract advisor to the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service, in the Global Antiterrorism and Training Assistance Program, leading international training and advisory missions to numerous countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, Indonesia, and the Middle East. He served one year as a fully embedded training and technical advisor in Afghanistan as part of the Pentagon’s Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office, with liaison to the Afghan National Customs Academy and the Nuclear Counter-Proliferation Program at the University of Kabul. He also served as a command advisor to the Pentagon for criminal investigation in Baghdad, Iraq for 18 months.

His post-9/11 federal law enforcement service included five years in the newly formed Federal Air Marshal Service, where he was the honor graduate of the first FAMS Instructor Course in 2002.

Before 9/11, his federal law enforcement service included 15 years of criminal investigations and enforcement operations as a special agent of the legacy United States Customs Service on the southwest border. He rose through the ranks to become the supervisory special agent in Laredo, Texas, the largest land border port of entry for cargo in the United States. His field operations service was interrupted by a two-year tour as an instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. He has led federal, multi-agency task forces for drug trafficking and organized crime.

Professor DeAnda holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice, and a double Master of Science in Homeland Security and Emergency Management. He is currently in his dissertation for a Ph.D. in public administration and policy analysis at Walden University, with a concentration in terrorism and peace studies. He holds two Board certifications in criminal investigations and internal security and has been a consultant to strategic security think tanks in New York and London.