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Donald G. Hanna has thirty-two years of experience in policing and teaching command officers at police academies as an adjunct instructor, in addition to fourteen years teaching leadership, police courses, and criminal law as a professor at Cedarville University. He served as police chief for twenty-four years in two university cities and at Ohio State University. He earned a BA in police administration from Indiana University and an MA in public administration from the University of Illinois.

His career reflects a sustained commitment to teaching and writing. He taught management, supervision, criminal law, and breathalyzer courses as a full-time instructor at the University of Illinois Police Training Institute, later taught law enforcement at Ohio State University for seven years, and instructed police command officers in leadership at six training centers in five states. As a consultant, he completed nine police department management studies in three states. He was previously a Police Executive Research Form board member and is a lifetime member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

His threefold career as police chief, professor, and penman now extends into a fifth book since retiring. Alongside A Life Lived Well, his earlier Mastering Self volumes, including the first with memoir material, reflect a long interest in character, discipline, and inner life. Scotland by heritage, Indiana by birth, and Hoosier by the grace of God, he currently resides in Ohio.