Jim Christy (born 1951) is an American government employee, who retired from his position as the Director of Futures Exploration (FX) for the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center in 2013.

FX was in charge of establishing strategic relationships between the US Government and private agencies and academia.

As the founder of the world's largest digital forensics shop, he is notable for his involvement in high priority government computer security.

In 1986 Christy investigated the notorious Hanover Hackers, a band of West German digital delinquents who stole information from United States Defense Department computers and sold it to the Soviet KGB.

[3] In 2016, Jim Christy was asked by Tom Colbert to join his DB Cooper Cold Case Team.