Stay Tuned
Lisa Skinner FBI (retired)
Lisa Skinner is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent with 27 years of service. She worked in the Houston, D.C., Tampa, Seattle, Knoxville, and Anchorage field offices. Her final assignment was as an instructor with the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
Ms. Skinner's investigative experience includes: Fugitives, Espionage, Foreign Counterintelligence, Domestic Terrorism, and Civil Rights. In 1994 the Hillsborough County Florida Bar Association recognized her as the Federal Law Enforcement Officer of the Year. The award was presented for her investigation and successful prosecution of two active duty U.S. Army personnel for Espionage.
She is a graduate of the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute and served as the polygraph examiner for the Knoxville and Anchorage FBI Field Offices. Prior to being assigned to the FBI Academy, she served as Chief Security Officer for the Anchorage FBI Field Office.
From 2006 until her retirement in 2013, Ms. Skinner was assigned to the FBI Academy as an instructor for the National Academy. While at the NA, she was designated as an adjunct professor for the University of Virginia and served as an instructor for Interviewing Strategies through Statement Analysis, Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior, and Investigative Interviewing and Interrogation. In addition to her instructor duties at the FBI National Academy, she lectured nationally and internationally to various law enforcement departments and agencies on the foregoing topics.
In 2012, Ms. Skinner received the Jefferson Award from the University of Virginia for the research she and Dr. David Matsumoto conducted in verbal and nonverbal indicators of deception and veracity. This research was the basis of the class that they created specifically for the FBI National Academy, which combined Dr. Matsumoto's years of research on microfacial expressions and emotional leakage with the techniques of statement analysis. Dr. Matsumoto's and Skinner's research has been published in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin and in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology.
Ms. Skinner now serves as an Independent Consultant for Humintell and provides training in statement analysis and evaluating truthfulness and detecting deception through nonverbal behavior. She also assists law enforcement departments and agencies with investigative and interview strategies.