Michael A. Lytle

Biography
Michael A. Lytle resides in Harlingen, Texas retired from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2017, and remains active as a self-employed consulting criminalist.
Early life
Michael Lytle was born in Salina, Kanas October 22, 1946 to Lt. Col. Milton E. Lytle, a career US Air Force officer and later Boeing Aeronautical Engineer, and Geraldine Lytle. His father’s military service prompted a number of family moves by transfers between airbases in South Dakota, California, Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio, and Florida. He completed high school at Choctawhatchee High School in the Class of 1964.
Education
Lytle is a 1973 graduate of Indiana University with double major degrees forensic studies and political science. He went on to receive a graduate certificate in law enforcement and police science at the Sam Houston State University Institute of Contemporary Corrections and the Behavior Sciences in 1977. He received his master of education with an emphasis in college teaching in from Texas A&M in 1978, and between 1978 and 1983 did postgraduate doctoral study in higher education administration and public management. In 2007, with a professional background involving medical-legal investigation, he completed a graduate certificate in forensic nursing from the University of California at Riverside.
Military
Lytle was as a commissioned US Army Military Police Corps Officer in both domestic and Vietnam assignments from 1969 to 1972. Lytle served as provost marshal for three contested provinces of the Central Highlands in Vietnam. He was later recalled to active duty as a Military Intelligence Officer, with Europe foreign area officer and attaché qualification, for both Operation Desert Shield and Bosnia. During the European deployment, Lytle served as the joint counterintelligence coordinating authority for the former Yugoslavia, and the Balkans. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, and the National Defense University. Ultimately attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve, Lytle is the recipient of the Legion of Merit Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with 2nd Oak Leaf Cluster, Joint Service Commendation Medal, and Army Commendation Medal with 4th Oak Leaf Cluster. He was also decorated by the Republic Of Vietnam Armed Forces with both the Staff Service Honor Medal 1st Class, and the Civic Action Medal 1st Class.
Career
In 1974, Lytle became a law enforcement trainer funded the Southwestern Tennessee Criminal Justice Higher Education Consortium, which included teaching academic criminal justice coursework at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga State Technical College, Cleveland State Community College, and the Chattanooga Police Academy.
While a graduate student at Texas A&M University, he was hired in 1980 on the professional staff of The Texas A&M University System, initially at the Office of General Counsel, then as Assistant to the Chancellor, and soon thereafter was appointed Assistant Director for Governmental Relations, and finally Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Federal Relations. In a voluntary capacity, he served as Executive Director of the Texas Committee for Employer Support to the Guard and Reserve, and was appointed by the US Secretary of Commerce to the Militarily Critical Technologies Technical Advisory Panel. He represented Texas A&M University System in Washington DC, offering advocacy positions and coalition contributions as a member of Federal Relations Committee, of The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
In 1987, Lytle joined Syracuse University, initially as the Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research and Graduate Study, then to be soon appointed as the University’s Director of Federal Relations. He also held a concurrent, part-time research appointment in technology and information policy at the University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. It was during the time he served on advisory panels at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of American Universities, and as a two-term section chair of the national security & defense administration section with the American Society of Public Administration. He was also a member of the editorial board of the refereed Journal of Technology Transfer. From 1988-1992, Lytle was a Secretary of the Army appointee to the Advisory Committee on ROTC Affairs, representing the American Association of Universities.
Lytle taught as an adjunct professor at Marymount University in Arlington. Virginia where he established the forensic science program, the Lutheran Colleges Washington Semester, and briefly was a senior legal policy analyst with the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 1997, Michael accepted a Washington-based senior research position with Science Applications International Corporation, and as an internationally recognized subject-matter expert on law enforcement, intelligence, homeland security, border security, counterterrorism, and counter narcotics, providing advisory and technical assistance to US and international agencies. He was the facilitator and proceedings editor for strategic binational working group conferences with Mexico, and then Colombia, and the multinational global forum on corruption convened by the US Vice President. As a consultant to the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Lytle was editor of the capstone strategy study-Taking Stock of Defense Intelligence. Lytle has continued as a reviewer/panelist with the National Institute of Justice since 1999.
In 2006, Michael was recruited, and then joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Brownsville, now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, as founding coordinator of the highly regarded Forensic Investigation Program in the Department of Criminal Justice. The program served at the center of forensic education and training for South Texas. Lytle was also the co-principal investigator on a grant from the Department of Homeland Security, being the second largest ever acquired in the College of Liberal Arts.
Organizations
Lytle has been involved with many international, national, and other governmental organization affiliated with national security, criminal justice, and the educational fields. Memberships include the International Association of Chiefs of Police, International Association for Identification, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts; and International Association of Forensic Nurses. He is also a member of Zeta Beta Tau social fraternity, and the honorary societies of Sigma Xi, Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Phi Sigma, and Lambda Alpha Epsilon. He is a life member of the Indiana University, Texas A&M University, National War College, and Sam Houston State University, and alumni associations. He is a 2003 Distinguished Alumnus of Sam Houston State University, and benefactor of the LTC Michael A. Lytle ’77 Award in Forensic Science awarded to the top forensic science graduate student at spring commencement convocation.

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