Jim Holmes

Jim Holmes spent 29 years as a Wisconsin Law Enforcement Officer. He began his law enforcement career with the Dane County Sheriff’s Department as a sheriff’s aide. He then served as a patrol officer with the Fitchburg Police Department before obtaining a position as a special agent with the Wisconsin Department of Justice/Division of Criminal Investigation, where he was employed for almost 28 years.

Jim was assigned to DCI’s White Collar Crimes Bureau for four years, while also being one of the agents involved in the creation of DCI’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit. For the last 24 years, Jimwas assigned to DCI’s major crimes unit where he was the lead investigator in numerous adult and child homicide and equivocal death investigations, officer involved death investigations and other officer involved critical incidents, and investigations involving murder-for-hire, missing and abducted children, child sexual exploitation, and child abuse and neglect. Jim was assigned to the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Identity Resolution Team (WiscIR) where he was directly involved in the successful resolution of multiple violent crime cases through the use of investigative genetic genealogy. Jim also coordinated DCI’s annual statewide two-week death investigation school for 22 years, of which over 1160 homicide investigators graduated the course. In addition, he had coordinated several 2- to 3-day death investigation courses for law enforcement officers during his tenure at DCI.

In addition to his duties at DCI, Jim served on the Wisconsin Child Death Review Council (CDRC) for seventeen (17) years. Jim was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA), and the Wisconsin Association of Homicide Investigators (WAHI) for many years, of which he had served as the President of both associations during his time on the Board of Directors.

Prior to his law enforcement career, Jim served three years on active duty in the United States Army’s Military Intelligence Corps, 732nd Military Intelligence Battalion, as an Electronic Warfare Signal Intelligence Analyst.

Jim graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Baccalaureate of Arts Degree in two majors, Behavioral Science & Law and Sociology, while also receiving a Criminal Justice Certificate.