Linda Taylor is an Adjunct Professor of Health Information Management at St. Petersburg, Florida, where she is currently teaching Introduction to Coding and Healthcare Reimbursement Systems. She has over twenty years as an emergency responder and law enforcement officer with positions such as Sergeant, Police Officer, Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician. Mrs. Taylor is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), a member of the American Health Information Management Association and its Florida Affiliate FHIMA, and a Certified Professional Compliance Officer by the American Association of Professional Coders.

In 1986, Mrs. Taylor become the first female Public Safety Officer for the City of Highland Park Michigan, where she worked as a Police Officer, Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician. She later transferred to the Detroit Police Department where she worked in various positions such as patrol officer, community service officer, law enforcement information officer, and emergency hospital officer before getting promoted to Sergeant. As a Sergeant, her duties included: patrol sergeant, incident commander, training sergeant, technical liaison sergeant, administrative sergeant, timekeeper, and Chief of Police’s Staff Sergeant. She also served as a board member on the Law Enforcement Information Network Subcommittee with the State of Michigan. Mrs. Taylor has won several awards throughout her career for outstanding achievements prior to retiring from the emergency response management field. Once retired, Mrs. Taylor helped to start her family-owned medical clinic in Arizona and became a Registered Health Information Administrator and Certified Professional Compliance Officer. Prior to joining St. Petersburg College, she worked as an Assistant Professor at Indiana Institute of Technology for five years, as well as 3 years as a Licensed Insurance Broker and Agent for Medicare and Medicaid Sales, Senior Quality Analyst on the National Benefits Team for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan as well as other health related positions.

Mrs. Taylor’s academic credentials include Master of Science Degree in Health Information Management with a graduate certificate in Health Information Exchange from the College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth Minnesota, and a Master of Science Degree in Business Management from Colorado Technical University with graduate certificates in Project Management, Change Management, and Business and IT Transformation. Her undergraduate degrees are a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix’s Southfield Michigan extension, and an Associate of Applied Science in Computer and Data Processing from Wayne County Community College, Detroit, Michigan, along with many other notable certificates.