John Wesley Anderson is a published author, storyteller, and TEDx speaker. He enjoyed a thirty-year law enforcement career and was twice elected Sheriff for El Paso County, Colorado. Prior to serving as Sheriff, John was employed with the Colorado Springs Police Department and retired at the rank of sergeant. After being term-limited as Sheriff, in 2003, John went to work for the Lockheed Martin Corporation, where he focused on corporate and homeland security initiatives and advanced technology development. In 2012, he retired from the corporate world to launch a consulting company, JW Anderson & Associates, LTD., allowing him the freedom to pursue his passion for writing, history, and the arts. Although John has traveled around the world, including several adventures on a catamaran sailing the Caribbean, three corporate security assignments into a combat zone on the Horn of Africa, and landing on an aircraft carrier at sea in the Pacific Ocean, he remains most fascinated by the rich history and art discovered in his own backyard in the American Southwest.
