James L. Porter, MA, LAT, ATC has worked as a medical provider for USA Wrestling for 45 years and also as an athletic trainer at the youth, high school and college level for 53 years.

He served as tournament medical coordinator for eight FILA/United World Wrestling world championships, nine United States Olympic Team Trials, 32 USA Wrestling Junior National Championships, 30 USA Wrestling World Team Trials, 35 USA Opens and nine World Cups. Porter worked at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. He worked the Pan American Games, the Pan American Championships, and numerous international wrestling tournaments.

Porter was awarded the FILA Gold Star Award in 2012 for outstanding service to FILA, becoming the only USA medical provider in history to receive the distinguished honor.

He also worked as a wrestling coach and athletic trainer at North Linn High School and South Tama High School in Iowa, and as a volunteer coach at Drake University in 1980-81.

Porter was the director of sports medicine for Athletes in Action wrestling from 1981 to 1985. He was the tournament medical coordinator for the Cliff Keen Collegiate Wrestling Tournament from 1983 to 2023, and for the NAIA Wrestling Championships in 1976, 1977 and 1979. Porter was the medical coordinator for the Concord Cup International Greco-Roman tournament from 1983 to 1999.

Highlights of his career include being the medical coordinator for the 1984 Olympic Training Camp in Big Bear, California, and pre-event training camps for the 2003 and 2015 World Championships. He is scheduled to work as medical coordinator at the U23 World Championships in 2026 and the Senior World Championships in 2027, both hosted in Las Vegas.

Porter began working as a medical coordinator for USA Wrestling national events in 1999 and authored and taught the medical tournament coordinator guidelines. He served on USA Wrestling's Sports Science and Sports Medicine and Concussion Management committees.

Porter is a featured speaker on management of bleeding on the mat and identification of infectious vs. inflammation of skin infection in athletics for boxing, mixed-martial arts and wrestling. He opened and managed a sports medicine clinic at the Xtreme Couture MMA gym until 2018.

Porter received the Lifetime Service to Wrestling award from the Nevada Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2025, which he played in instrumental role in reestablishing in 2023.