By Steve Neavling
Shohini Sinha has been tapped to serve as the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office.
At the time of the appointment, Sinha was serving as executive special assistant to the director at FBI headquarters.
Sinha joined the bureau as a special agent in 2001 and was first assigned to the Milwaukee Field Office, where she worked on counterterrorism investigations. She also served in temporary assignments at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, the FBI Legal Attaché Office in London, and the Baghdad Operations Center.
In 2009, Sinha was promoted to supervisory special agent and transferred to the Counterterrorism Division, where she was as program manager of Canada-based extraterritorial investigations and facilitated liaison efforts with Washington, D.C.-based Canadian liaison officers.
In 2012, Sinha became assistant legal attaché in Ottawa, Canada, where she worked on counterterrorism investigation in collaboration with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
In 2015, she was promoted to field supervisor in the Detroit Field Office and led squads tasked with investigating international terrorism.
In early 2020, Sinha transferred to the cyber intrusion squad. Later in 2020, she joined the Portland Field Office and was promoted to assistant special agent in charge for national security matters before investigating criminal matters.
Sinha was chosen to serve as the executive special assistant to the director in 2021.
Before joining the bureau, Sinha worked as a therapist and later as an administrator for a private, not-for-profit clinic in Lafayette, Ind. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Purdue University in Indiana.
