Tim Schade

Tim Schade joined the Law Enforcement Innovation Center in August of 2017 as a training specialist. His role focuses on numerous courses facilitated and conducted by LEIC and the National Forensic Academy (NFA). 

Schade joined LEIC with over 28 years of crime scene and forensic experience after serving with the Knoxville Police Department. He is a Certified Latent Print Examiner through the IAI and has testified in numerous courts at various levels. He has also served on the Search and Rescue Team.

Tim has performed training for the Knoxville Police Academy and the Citizens Police Academy. Since 2001, he has been a trainer for the NFA, teaching DNA classes as well as train-the-trainer classes for DNA training. He also teaches LEIC classes in forensic applications to bio-terrorism, forensic training for the U.S. Air Force, forensic applications in corrections, crime scene management and operations, forensic applications to domestic violence and campus sexual assault, forensic photography, latent print identification and latent print development.

Schade has a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice administration from San Diego State University, a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Public Administration, also from the University of Tennessee.