Captain Norris served for 22 years as a U.S. Coast Guard attorney. Career highlights include being appointed to serve as a court-martial trial judge and as a judge on the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals; serving as the staff judge advocate for the Fourteenth Coast Guard District; and serving as the Robert J. Papp Jr. Professor of Maritime Security at the U.S. Naval War College. He currently works as a maritime legal and regulatory consultant, and has also been retained to create a 5-month maritime security course for international military officers at the U.S. Naval War College.