Elizabeth McQueen

Elizabeth McQueen has spent 23 years in victim advocacy within law enforcement, where she specializes in general victimology with additional focus on sex offenses, domestic violence, homicides, and family crimes. In her current role she conducts outreach and advocacy by reviewing calls for service, providing referrals, supporting individuals through the criminal justice system including interviews, depositions, and trials, assisting with protection orders, and offering safety planning. McQueen previously worked with perpetrators, volunteered at prisons, spent time at a non-profit providing humanities-based programming, and advanced through the probation system from victim specialist to chief deputy supervising others. She holds a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in multidisciplinary studies with a focus on conflict resolution, along with hundreds of hours of specialized training in domestic violence, threat assessment, sex offenses, and offender supervision. As a certified trainer she instructs at the academy three times a year, delivers community presentations on protection orders and threat assessment, and has served as a panelist at conferences. McQueen participates in command staff, the Lancaster County threat assessment team, the county coordinated response team, the sexual assault response team, the DHHS case review team, and serves as victim representative on the Nebraska Interstate Compact Board. She collaborated with another agency to develop an initiative educating officers on honor violence, which expanded into a community-wide effort improving cultural responses.