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On the 1969 team that created PROMIS under Joan E. Jacoby and Charles R. Work, project manager Bill Hamilton as assistant director for computer systems in the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia.
He wrote a paper entitled “Design and Development of a Criminal Justice Information and Analysis System in Washington, D.C.” about this process. It was published in Urban and Regional Information Systems Proceedings in 1969.1
In 1970 he was acting director of the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia.
In 1974 James was the Deputy Director of the National Center for Prosecution Management dedicated to getting new statistical tools and techniques into the hands of prosecutors.