Faculty Profile: Richard Littlehale

Rich Littlehale is Assistant Director for Technology and Innovation at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and has worked at TBI since 1995. The Technology and Innovation Division’s goal is to provide TBI agents and the Tennessee law enforcement community with best-in-class investigative, communications, and information technologies. AD Littlehale serves as TBI’s CIO, and also oversees TBI’s online child exploitation, criminal intelligence, cyber investigations, digital forensics, and electronic surveillance functions. His focus over much of his career has been identifying, collecting, and utilizing technology-based evidence in criminal investigations. He has testified as an expert witness on communications records in numerous homicide and violent crime trials, and frequently serves as an expert on access to digital evidence for the state and local law enforcement community before Congress and other bodies. AD Littlehale is a member of the Tennessee Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council, and chairs the Technology and Digital Evidence Committee of the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies, the Police Investigative Operations Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the FBI Lawful Access and Emerging Technologies Intergovernmental Committee. AD Littlehale is an attorney and instructor on pre-trial criminal procedure and electronic surveillance law. He received his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College and his law degree from Vanderbilt University.