Lieutenant James enlisted in 2004, graduated from the Coast Guard’s College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative in 2006, then proceeded to logistics billets on board the USCGC Seneca (WMEC-906) and various Headquarters Program Support Product Lines. Graduating from the University of South Florida, where he specialized in archival research, he went on to study legal research at the University of DC. He is a plank owner of the Coast Guard Office of the Chief of Staff, C5I Service Center, Sector St. Petersburg, and currently on the Data Readiness Task Force.
