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About Us - Our Board of Directors - Biography
About Us - Board of Directors,
Biography
"CJ” retired from the Air Force in 2003 after serving 24 years as an intelligence officer. She then continued to work for the federal government in a civilian capacity until 2007 when complications from metastatic breast cancer cut her career short. CJ’s positions included, amongst others, monitoring and analyzing Soviet satellite activity during the Cold War, supporting airlift operations for Operation JUST CAUSE in Panama and Operation DESERT STORM in Iraq, serving as the intelligence lead on the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Somalia Conflict, and coordinating intelligence activities of 11 nations for NATO crisis intervention.
Dian “CJ” M. Corneliussen-James,
President and Chairman of the Board
Diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer to the lung in 2006
Overseas tours included South Korea and Germany – the latter spent working with German intelligence organizations due to her fluency in German. Her last position in the Air Force carried over into her civil service career … that of resolving the cases of Americans who did not return from previous conflicts, primarily the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War. CJ and her husband Rob, a retired Air Force pilot and Vietnam War veteran (OV-10 forward air controller), live in Annapolis, Maryland with their four adopted cats.
