Joey (Joe) D. Kennedy is the Vice President of the BlueLine Training Group LLC, which provides law enforcement continuing education and leadership training throughout the United States. He is a founding partner of the Centurion Leadership Group. Joe retired as the Special Agent-in-Charge for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Carolinas Field Office in 2014. He attended the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, GA and subsequently served in various offices around the world including, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Puerto Rico, Japan, Philippines, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain, and Washington, DC. Joe was the Primary Architect and First Program Manager for the internationally acclaimed NCIS Cold Case Homicide Unit. He wrote the methodology and protocol for NCIS Cold Case investigations, which has been adopted by numerous police agencies around the globe. Joe is the founder of the Carolinas Cold Case Coalition and recognized as an International Cold Case Expert.

Joe has served in countless leadership positions with multiple deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other war zones. He was the Director for the Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Counterintelligence Unit (JCIU), International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF), Kabul, Afghanistan and Chief of the Transnational Crimes Unit at the NCIS Middle East Field Office, Manama, Bahrain, where he collaborated with the International Police (INTERPOL) and NATO to develop proactive law enforcement strategies designed to combat Somali Piracy and narcotics smuggling in the Indian Ocean and Gulf Region. Joe served as an Executive Board Member for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force in the Caribbean and Territorial Crime Commission for the Governor of Puerto Rico. He was co-chair for the North Carolina Criminal Justice Information Network (CJIN) LiNX program and has served on several law enforcement advisory boards.

Joe is a member of the International Homicide Investigators Association, North Carolina Homicide Investigators Association, North Carolina Association of Chiefs of Police, and Eastern Carolina Association of Law Enforcement Executives. Joe was profiled in the book “Delayed Justice: Inside Stories from America’s Best Cold Case Investigators” by Mary Bransom. He was featured in the “Real NCIS” by Story House Productions, Washington, DC. He is a Core Team Expert for the Starz TV “Wrong Man” Series. Joe serves as an expert witness for police investigative procedures and homicide investigations throughout the United States and he is the co-author of “Solving Cold Cases – Investigation Techniques and Protocol.”

Joe is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer, NC where he played baseball for legendary coach Joseph Ferebee. He received a Master of Policy Management degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Joe participated in Executive Education at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Joe and his wife of 36 years, Janet, reside in Bermuda Run, NC with their border collie, Lucy. They serve as volunteers at World Relief. Joe serves on the usher team at Awake Church in Winston-Salem, NC. Joe enjoys scouting baseball and international travel.