Ken Dewitt

Mr. Dewitt is currently the Information Technology Director of Navajo County in Arizona.  He started his career in 1980 working as a programmer in central Illinois for a firm that was focused on local government software.  He was soon asked to lead a small county in northern Illinois as their IT Director.  After a few years he moved to a larger County between Chicago and Milwaukee and served there for 20 years.  He and his wife left the Chicago area and he became the IT Director for Navajo County in 2014.    

Navajo County is in the northeastern part of Arizona.  It has about 106,000 people on non-reservation land and the County seat is in Holbrook.  Over 65% of the County is federally designated Indian reservations consisting of the Navajo Nation and Hopi’s to the north and Fort Apache Indians reservation to the south.  It has a total area of 9,960 square miles and is the 11th largest County in the nation. 

Mr. Dewitt has served on a few boards representing rural Arizona including the Arizona Supervisors Association’s IT Director’s/CIO’s group that represents all 15 Counties.  He also sits on the Arizona Supreme Court’s, Commission on Technology that oversees Court’s technology statewide.  He is on the Board of Directors for the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance. (ACTRA) He is an advisory member to the Cyber Readiness Grant Program Task Force and a voting member on the Statewide Cybersecurity Planning Committee with the State of Arizona Department of Homeland Security | Cyber Command.