By Steve Neavling
Douglas S. DePodesta was named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office.
DePodesta had been serving as interim special agent in charge of the Memphis Field Office in Tennessee.
DePodesta began his FBI career in Chicago in 2002, investigating narcotics. He was transferred in 2006 to Chicago’s technical program, and he investigated gangs, drugs, public corruption, counterterrorism and foreign counterintelligence.
DePodesta was promoted to supervisor of the program in 2013.
In 2016, DePodesta began serving as chief of the Sensitive Operations Support Unit in the Operational Technology Division at headquarters.
In 2019, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the bureau’s Detroit Field Office.
DePodesta began serving as section chief in the Finance and Facilities Division at headquarters in 2021.
In 2023, he began serving as interim special agent in charge of the Memphis Field Office.
Before joining the bureau, DePodesta was a police officer for nine years with the Cincinnati Police Department.
