Please join us for our first State of the Agency Lecture of the Fall 2022 semester. Our guest speaker will be Aaron Kurtenback, Assistant Deputy Chief with the US Probation and Pretrial Services Office - District of Nebraska. A reception will follow the event at 1:30 pm in the Heritage Room.

Aaron Kurtenbach has been an officer with the United States Probation and Pretrial Services Office since 2008. He is currently the Assistant Deputy Chief and oversees the pretrial services and presentence investigation units. Additionally, Aaron oversees the location monitoring program, tactical search team, and computer search operations.

Prior to becoming the Assistant Deputy Chief, Aaron was a supervisor and managed a team of probation officers whose primary function was post-conviction supervision. He also provided oversight of case assignment operations, compassionate release investigations, and community outreach efforts.

Prior to becoming a supervisor, Aaron served as the district’s high-risk specialist and supervised a caseload of offenders in the Omaha area who were primarily assessed as high risk to reoffend. He also supervised a caseload on the Omaha Nation and Winnebago Indian Reservations and was a co-coordinator of the Witness Security Program.

Aaron also previously served on the district’s safety team after becoming certified to instruct firearms and officer-response tactics (defensive tactics). He has also trained in topics such as sex offender policies and procedures; search team policies, practices, and tactics; cybercrime searches; community observation techniques; field supervision preparation; and Native American supervision practices.

Aaron has served as a member of district review teams in the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta), Southern District of Georgia (Savannah), Western District of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh). Western District of Kentucky (Louisville), and District of Maryland (Baltimore). This involved Aaron reviewing the work of probation and pretrial services in these five districts by conducting an independent and objective audit measuring adherence to national policy and procedural requirements.

Aaron earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003 and a master’s degree in security management from Bellevue University in 2007. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as a probation officer for the State of Nebraska in Douglas County Adult Probation.

Aaron is married and has three boys that he hopes to not supervise in the future.