Mr. Ziglar is Founder and Principal of the Ziglar Group, a consulting firm that provides strategic counseling and professional coaching.

From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Ziglar was President and CEO of Cross Match Technologies, a leading global provider of biometric technologies and security solutions. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Ziglar was Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, a position in which he served as the Senate’s chief operating officer, chief protocol officer and chief law enforcement officer. He left that post in 2001 when he was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate, as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, a position he held until December 2002 when the agency was dissolved, and its missions transferred to the new Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Ziglar served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science during the Reagan Administration. Early in his career, Mr. Ziglar served as a legislative and public affairs officer at the Department of Justice in the Nixon Administration and was a staff aide to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the period 1964 – 1971.

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Mr. Ziglar has over 50 years of experience in management, finance, law, education, and public policy, spending 17 years as an investment banker on Wall Street and 20 years as a practicing lawyer. He began his legal career as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. He later was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, and he was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics.

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Mr. Ziglar presently serves on the Board of Directors of Integrated Biometrics, Inc. He is an Advisory Board member of the Ellis Island Honors Society and was a 2018 recipient of the Ellis Island Honors Society Medal of Honor.

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Mr. Ziglar previously has served on numerous boards, including Forward Industries, Inc., the Migration Policy Institute (Chairman), the Division of Earth and Life Studies of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the Advisory Board of the Gulf Research Program (BP oil spill) of the NAS, as well as a director of the National Immigration Forum. He also has served on the Board of Councilors of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (Hiroshima, Japan): as a member of the Water Science and Technology Board of the NAS; as a member of the Presidents’ Circle of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; as an honorary life director of the National Water Resources Association; as a trustee of the Harry A. Blackmun Scholarship Foundation; as a director of Human Rights First; and as a director of Immigration WorksUSA.

 

Mr. Ziglar received his undergraduate and law degrees from the George Washington  University.  He is a member of the bars of New York, Virginia, Arizona, and the District of Columbia.