distinguised board members

Distinguished Board Member

Virginia, USA

Bonnie Burkhardt is a software engineer and President of her company, Blue Ridge Software Consulting.  She has a Top-Secret security clearance and over 35 years of experience intercepting and analyzing signals for the Department of Defense.  In addition to writing software, she has worked as a network protocol engineer, system administrator, and intelligence analyst.  Because of her job duties, she has had over 100 classes on interception and privacy laws, taught by the Department of Defense.

Ms. Burkhardt has used her knowledge of these laws to expand her business into providing expert witness support to attorneys.  With two cases, she wrote amicus briefs as a pro se litigant and submitted the briefs to the Appellate Court.  These briefs formed the basis for her book, “Manufacturing Criminals – Fourth Amendment Decay in the Electronic Age.”  She presented seminars at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers conference.

Ms. Burkhardt was born and raised in North Dakota and drove her dad’s combine during harvest season.  She has a BS in Applied Math and MS in Computer Science and Engineering.  She and her husband, Walter, moved to Virginia in 1989.  They have grown daughters who were born and raised in Virginia.  After becoming an empty nester, she became active in politics and advocating for Fourth Amendment rights.