Chasing Dollars?
A Local Emergency Management Perspective on Capacity Building

Judson M. Freed
Director, Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Ramsey County, MN

May 22, 2013

COMMENTS

JUDD FREED

Judson Freed has more than 25 years experience in Emergency Management; Homeland Security; research protection; and community risk, resilience and operational continuity in the academic, private, and public sectors. He has created and expanded innovative and successful Emergency Management programs at the University of Minnesota and as a private consultant. For the past decade, he has served (and continues to serve) as Director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for one of the nation's most densely populated large urban counties.

Judd is a frequent presenter at conferences throughout the US, and a regular guest lecturer on issues of public sector risk and ethics in an age of terrorism, and is regularly sought out by local media. He is also very active in government affairs issues pertaining to the structure of Homeland Security in the United States, and the implications to and impact on local communities and local government. He has provided expert testimony before several state and federal commissions and to both the Minnesota State Legislature and the United States Congress.

Judd serves as Vice Chair of the Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee, Subcommittee on Homeland Security and Emergency Management at the National Association of Counties; Government Affairs Committee Chair for the Association of Minnesota Emergency Managers; member of the Government Affairs Committee of the International Association of Emergency Mangers-USA Council, and helped write the ANSI-approved Emergency Management Standard by EMAP as a member of the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) Technical Committee and as an EMAP Commissioner.