Women in recent years have made inroads at federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI. Women agents head offices like Baltimore and San Francisco, and there’s sure to be more in the future.
By Henri E. Cauvin
Washington Post Staff Writer
The face of the FBI is changing, and to see how, look no farther than the federal courthouse in Greenbelt.
One mortgage fraud case after another has ended up there over the past year, and in case after case, the FBI — long defined by its G-man image — has had a woman as the lead agent.
With white-collar crime no longer taking a distant back seat to terrorism, agents such as Jennifer Perry, who came to the FBI with a knack for crunching numbers, are finding themselves in the middle of some of the most important cases in Maryland.
