James B. Comey, Jr

James B. Comey, Jr. Director Federal Bureau of Investigation

On September 4, 2013, the FBI welcomed James B. Comey, Jr. as its new Director. A Yonkers, New York native, Director Comey gained standing as a champion of the law early in his career. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Director Comey returned to New York to join the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as a Junior Attorney. There he gained credibility by taking on numerous crimes, most notably, organized crime, and served as the lead prosecutor in the case of the United States v. John Gambino, et al. Afterward, Director Comey became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he prosecuted the high-profile case that followed the 1996 terrorist attack on the U.S. military’s Khobar Towers in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Director Comey returned to New York to become the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. At the end of 2003, he was tapped to be the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice (DOJ) under then United States Attorney General John Ashcroft, and moved to the Washington, D.C. area.

Director Comey left DOJ in 2005 to serve as General Counsel and Senior Vice President at defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Five years later, he joined Bridgewater Associates, a Connecticut-based investment fund, as their General Counsel. Since early 2013, Director Comey has been a Lecturer in Law, a Senior Research Scholar, and Hertog Fellow in National Security Law at Columbia Law School.

James B. Comey, Jr. joined the FBI as its seventh Director following the 12-year tenure of Director Robert S. Mueller, III.