Nina Cornett is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy – the highest position attainable in the Navy hierarchy by a non-political-appointee. During her tenure with the Navy, she was responsible for overseeing automation projects for US navy bases and, ships ,and managed a two-billion-dollar annual budget.

In addition to the Victim's Guide to Timber Theft, she is the author of Alaskan Summer, a novel published in hardcover by Avalon books and in paperback by Dell publishing. She has also written magazine articles, and has researched and written scripts for her and her videographer husband Dean's documentaries. Those include American Chestnut, Sugar Cane, Sorghum, and Stir-offs, and Appalachian Chair Caning and Story Telling, which are currently airing on PBS stations. She is presently working on a memoir of the family dynamics around her mother's death, tentatively titled Fault Lines and Fractures, and provisionally subtitled An Appalachian King Lear Without The Armies. She is in the beginning stages of development for a mystery set in Alaska.

She became involved with timber theft when she and Dean discovered that they had lost more than 100 hardwoods on the family property to timber theft. Pursuing that theft led them through both a criminal and a civil court case. The theft was finally resolved after thirteen years of persistence by a judgment against the accused logger. During that thirteen years,she became an expert on timber theft, particularly timber taken from private landowners. That knowledge has been condensed into Victim's Guide to Timber Theft.

Following the resolution of the theft, she was named to the State of Kentucky's Access to Justice Commission for a three-year term, now completed. She is also an officer on the Board of a non-profit corporation.

In addition, in 2013, she and her husband were honored with the state of Kentucky's Environmental Lifetime Achievement Award for their environmental efforts in Kentucky, as well as their work in Alaska to save salmon, bears, and forests.

You can find out more about the Cornetts at www.cornettmedia.com.