Cornelia Sigworth

Cornelia Sigworth is Senior Director for Strategic Law Enforcement Engagement at Axon, where she cultivates relationships with law enforcement leadership, identifies and disseminates best practices, and oversees the Axon Ambassador Team. Bringing more than 25 years of experience at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), she has a proven track record of building partnerships, designing national grant programs, and driving policy initiatives to improve public safety outcomes.

During her tenure at the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), she served as Associate Deputy Director for Law Enforcement and Crime Reduction and as Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff to the BJA director. In those roles, she led efforts to combat violent crime, enhance prosecution practices, improve public-safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental-health needs, and implement school safety programing. She conceived and developed several flagship grant programs—including the Crime Gun Intelligence Centers Program, the Connect and Protect Mental Health Response Program, and the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative—and served as the first Director of the Public Safety Partnership Program, leading its development and implementation.

Sigworth began her DOJ career at the National Institute of Justice, managing national research, evaluation, and program-development portfolios. She holds a B.S. in Criminology from Northern Arizona University and an M.S. in Justice, Law, and Society from American University. A graduate of the DOJ Leadership Excellence and Achievement Program and Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Executive Fellows Program, she served on the advisory boards of the FBI National Academy/National Executive Institute and Harvard’s Public Safety Leadership for a Networked World, and currently serves on the advisory boards of the University of Chicago Police Leadership Academy, the University of Virginia Center for Public Safety and Justice, and the Wichita Police Foundation.

Among her honors are the DOJ Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service and Northern Arizona University’s Criminology Alumni of the Year Award