Joanne O'Rourke Isham is an espionage and security expert from the United States. She is a former member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and currently involved in geospatial intelligence.
Joanne O'Rourke Isham is an espionage and security expert from the United States. She is a former member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and currently involved in geospatial intelligence.
Isham graduated from the University of Notre Dame in the mid 1970s. [1] She started working in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the age of 20 doing background checks. [1] Isham was Director of Congressional Affairs at the CIA during the Aldrich Ames spy case, [2] Associate Deputy Director for the CIA's Directorate for Science and Technology, [3] and Deputy Director of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from November 2003 to April 2006. In addition, she was the Deputy Director of National Imagery and Mapping Agency from September 2001 to October 2003. [4]
Isham retired from the CIA in 2006 as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service, and a career officer at the Central Intelligence Agency, which she had joined in 1977. [5]
In August 2017, she joined defense technology firm Polaris Alpha's advisory board. [6] [7]
Isham was awarded CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal by Director John Deutch on March 18, 1995; in recognition for her outstanding leadership and management of the Office of Congressional Affairs. [2]
She was awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement. She also received the Director’s Award in recognition of extraordinary service. [4]
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