By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
FBI Director James B. Comey has named Timothy Slater to head up the Denver Division and Kathryn Peterson to head the Oklahoma City Division.
Slater most recently served as the deputy assistant director of the Critical Incident Response Group at Quantico, Va.
Slater joined the FBI in 1999 and began his career in the Detroit Division on the Violent Crimes Task Force, according to a press release. He has held leadership positions in the Criminal Investigative Division, as the senior supervisory resident agent over four resident agencies in the Oklahoma City Division, in the Critical Incident Response Group, and in the Knoxville Division.
He’ll assume the new post in September.
Kathryn Peterson most recently served as an inspector in the Inspection Division at FBI headquarters.
She joined the FBI in 1990 and was first assigned to the Milwaukee Division, where she worked counterterrorism, gang, drug, and organized crime matters, the FBI said. Peterson has held leadership positions in the Chicago, Albany, Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, and Inspection Divisions, and was a member of the Milwaukee Division’s SWAT team.
She will start the new job in late September.
Prior to joining the FBI, she served in the U.S. Army as an intelligence analyst.
Ms. Peterson will assume her new role in late September.
