Terry Wade has been named special agent in charge of the criminal division at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, the agency announced Wednesday.
Wade most recently served as section chief of the executive development and selection program in the Human Resources Division at FBI headquarters, a press release said.
Wade began his career with the agency in 1996, and was first assigned to the Helena, Montana office of the Salt Lake City Division. He focused on domestic terrorism cases.
After that, he headed to the Oklahoma City division, where he primarily worked violent crimes and drug and white-collar crime matters.
After that, he was promoted to a supervisor in the Criminal Investigative Division at headquarters. In 2003, he was promoted to supervisory special agent of the Flagstaff Resident Agency of the Phoenix Division.
In 2007, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Albuquerque Division, where he was responsible for the counterterrorism, counterintelligence, cyber, intelligence programs and the crisis management program and SWAT team.
He also served as the deputy on-scene commander in Baghdad, Iraq, from December 2008 to April 2009.
