David G. Kitts, Ph.D., Program Manager

Knoxville Police Department, Special Crimes Unit

For 20 years, Dr. Kitts has been serving in KPD units that handle domestic violence. In January 2002, he was hired as the Trainer for the KPD’s Domestic Violence Unit. Kitts served for 5 years as the Chairperson of the Education Committee of the Community Coalition on Family Violence. In 2005, Kitts served on the building, operations, and grand opening committees of the KFJC as well as leading the center’s chaplain corps. Starting in 2007, he served eight years on a training team that offered a POST certified 40-hour course on domestic violence through the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy. In 2009, Kitts was promoted to supervise the merger of KPD’s Domestic Violence Unit and the Juvenile Unit, which today is called the Special Crimes Unit and whose members investigate child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse, and missing persons. Possessing three seminary degrees, Kitts helped establish, in 2002, the Knox County TN Clergy Task Force Against Domestic Violence, and, in 2011, he began serving as an Adjunct Professor of World Religions at Carson-Newman University.