Robert M Lombardo

Dr. Robert M. Lombardo PhD, a sociologist, is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a member of the Graduate Faculty at Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Lombardo was appointed to the faculty in 2005. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1994.

Dr. Lombardo is a thirty-three-year police veteran having served twenty-eight years with the Chicago Police Department and five years as the Administrative Deputy Chief of the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department. He has worked in all areas of policing including patrol, investigations, narcotics, administration, and organized crime. In addition, Dr. Lombardo has taught at the Chicago Police Academy and the Illinois State Police Academy, and as a visiting scholar at the Police School of Catalonia (Spain) and the Police Staff College Bramshill, England.

He was appointed in 2000 by Illinois Governor George Ryan to serve on the Illinois Wireless Enhanced 911 Board and was a member of the Cook County Emergency Telephone System Board from 1997 to 2001. He also served as a consultant to the Illinois Integrated Justice Information Systems Implementation Board from 2002 to 2005.

Dr. Lombardo has served as a guest editor for the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, a peer reviewer for Trends in Organized Crime, and a book reviewer for the American Journal of Sociology.