WASHINGTON — Michael B. Ward has been plucked from the FBI mothership to head the agency’s Newark Division, starting in March.
Ward, currently the assistant director of Counterrorism Division’s Operations Branch II at headquarters, started his FBI career in 1988 and spent the first nine years in the Dallas office dealing primarily with violent crime, interstate theft and criminal enterprise investigations, the FBI said.
In July 1997, he was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Office of Professional Responsibility at FBI Headquarters. Nearly two years later, he was named assistant inspector in the Inspection Division.
In September 2000, he was named white collar crime supervisor in the Tampa Division’s Orlando Resident Agency.
In 2003, he became assistant special agent in charge in Boston and a couple years he was named section chief of the Executive Development and Selection Program at FBI Headquarters.
In 2006, he was named special agent in charge of the Oklahoma City bureau before returning to headquarters in 2008 to assume his current post.
