Dr. Joseph R. Richards is a forensic psychiatrist with twenty years of mental health experience. Dr. Richards has consulted or testified in over 70 civilian and military court hearings.

Dr. Richards received his medical degree in 1998 from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. He completed his residency training in psychiatry in the National Capital Military Psychiatry Residency Program in the Washington, D.C. area. Dr. Richards completed a forensic psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Law and Psychiatry Division, New Haven, CT. He is double board certified in adult psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. An expert in military mental health, he served as a staff psychiatrist at multiple bases, provided medical support to the Pentagon terrorist disaster site in 2001, and deployed to Balad AB, Iraq in 2004.

Before retiring from the Air Force in 2018, he was assigned as the Chief of Medical Staff for the 59th Medical Wing at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center at JBSA-Lackland, TX. In previous assignments, Dr. Richards served as Chair of the Behavioral Medicine Department at Wilford Hall Medical Center at JBSA-Lackland, TX, Chief of Medical Staff at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, Commander of the Medical Operations Squadron at Little Rock AFB, AR, Mental Health Flight Commander at Edwards AFB, CA, Chief of the Mental Health Clinic at Kirtland AFB, NM, Medical Review Officer, Deputy Chief of Medical Staff, and Competent Medical Authority at Ramstein AB, Germany, and in numerous other leadership and career broadening assignments.