Jay Peterson

Adjunct Instructor Phone: 906-228-2683 Office: MI State Police, Crime Lab E-mail: jaypeter@nmu.edu

Jay Peterson is an adjunct faculty member of the Criminal Justice Department. Jay is currently employed as a Detective Sgt. with the Michigan State Police and assigned to the Marquette Forensic Laboratory as a Latent Fingerprint Examiner. Jay is a 1995 graduate of NMU and received his B.S. degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology. 

Jay has been with the Michigan State Police since 1997 and has worked as a trooper at the St. Ignace Post, a detective trooper in undercover narcotics, and was promoted to Detective Sgt. in 2007.