Don Hickman is a former FBI Special Agent and an Assistant Inspector General. The recipient of prestigious achievement awards from the FBI, the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency, and the U.S. Department of Justice, Don received his B.A. degree from Maryville College in Tennessee. He has done graduate work at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. A Viet-Nam era Army officer, he began his professional career as a high school history teacher and coach in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A native of Kingsport, Tennessee, and the father of two adult children, he and his wife Janet resides in Maryville, Tennessee.