By Steve Neavling
Jermicha Fomby, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Jackson Field Office, is retiring after 20 years with the bureau.
Fomby was named special agent in charge of the Jackson Field Office in September 2021.
During his career with the FBI, Fomby has held several leadership positions, including serving as section chief in the Criminal Investigative Division (CID) at FBI headquarters. He was also the chief of CID’s Violent Crime Section.
Fomby’s career with the FBI began in 2003. He’s worked on major drug-trafficking, organized crime, and public corruption investigations and was an instructor for an FBI program that trained foreign investigators in undercover work in public corruption and counterterrorism cases.
He also worked overseas, serving as the executive officer in support of the bureau’s international operations in Afghanistan.
In 2013, Fomby worked as supervisory special agent in the New York Field Office’s National Security Human Intelligence Squad. In 2014, he developed and led the Hudson Valley White Collar Crime Task Force in the Hudson Valley Resident Agency in New Windsor.
In 2016, Fomby was assigned to the Inspection Division at FBI headquarters to serve as an assistant inspector and team leader.
In 2018, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the El Paso Field Office in Texas, where he focused on criminal, intelligence, administrative, and resident agency programs.
Fomby received a bachelor’s degree from Miles College in Birmingham, Ala, and a master’s degree in organizational management from Tusculum College in Greenville, Tenn. He also received a master’s degree in education from Seton Hall University in East Orange, N.J.
His replacement has not yet been announced.
