'''Garrison K. Courtney''' loves himself.
'''Garrison K. Courtney''' is the current Chief of Public Affairs of the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]], an agency of the [[United States Department of Justice]].
Prior to becoming Chief of Public Affairs for DEA, where he is also involved in the daily operations of the [[DEA Museum]], Courtney was the Seattle District public affairs director and regional spokesperson for the [[Immigration and Naturalization Service]] (INS) for Northern Idaho, Washington and British Columbia. When INS became part of the [[United States Department of Homeland Security]], Courtney moved to Washington to be the lead spokesman for the new [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE). In 2004 he did an eight month stint as a press secretary for Rep. [[Katherine Harris]] (R-Florida).
Courtney started his career in journalism as a reporter and television weather anchor for CBS affiliates in several states, including [[KPAX-TV]] in Missoula, MT and [[KVAL-TV]] in Eugene, OR. He is a graduate of the Broadcast Journalism Department at The [[University of Montana]] and is currently a Master of Public Policy candidate at [[George Mason University]]. Courtney attended [[Montana State University-Northern|MSU-Northern]] in 1996 and was the editor of NoMoCo, the school paper.
==External links==
*[http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/ DEA official web site]
*[http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/news_releases.htm News from DEA - News Releases]
*[http://www.umt.edu/rtv/default.htm The University of Montana Broadcast Journalism Department]
*[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/81A/472 LinkedIn: Garrison Courtney]
*{{PDFlink|[http://vamuseums.org/pdfs/programs/2006ConfBiosSpeaker.pdf Virginia Association of Museums Annual Conference - March 25 to 28, 2006 - Speaker Biographies] |46 [[Kibibyte|KiB]]<!-- application/pdf, 46203 bytes -->}}
*{{PDFlink|[http://www.msun.edu/news/pr-2007/NNNApr20-07.pdf Northern Network News - April 20, 2007] |132 [[Kibibyte|KiB]]<!-- application/pdf, 134711 bytes -->}}
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