Kevin H. Winters is the Assistant Inspector General for Investigations within NASA’s Office of Inspector General -- and is responsible for supervising investigations into allegations of crime, cyber-crime, fraud, waste, abuse, and misconduct having impact on NASA programs, projects, operations, and resources.

Originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mr. Winters attended the University of Louisville on a Navy ROTC scholarship; was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer; and his initial service was as an armor officer with 2d Tank Battalion, 2d Marine Division. He was then selected to attend law school on the Funded Law Education Program. After graduating from law school with honors, he then served in a variety of Marine Corps legal billets at Camp Lejeune, Quantico, Okinawa, Washington, and as an International and Operational Law professor at the Army JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia. An Army War College graduate, Mr. Winters also had a tour as a battalion commander at Parris Island, SC, and three years at the Pentagon as the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ Deputy and Staff Judge Advocate, where his responsibilities included providing legal advice to the Commandant of the Marine Corps and his staff, and ensuring adequate legal services for 172,000 Marines and their families. His duties also included teaching law and policy to government and military officials in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. He was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Before leaving active duty and coming to NASA, his last assignments included service as the Staff Judge Advocate, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, and then as the Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy for Military Justice, where he was responsible for military justice policy and practice for the Department of the Navy -- where he also served on special assignment in Iraq. Mr. Winters is a member of Kentucky Bar; has a Masters of Law from University of Virginia’s School of Law; and is a retired Brigadier General. Mr. Winters is married to the former Rebecca Metz, of Louisville; they have two grown children, Amy and Aaron.

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E-mail: Kevin.H.Winters@nasa.gov