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Mobile FBI SAC Debra K. Mack Inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame
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Sep 13, 2007 - 6:02:38 PM

 

Special Agent in Charge Debra Mack

On June 1, 2007, the Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation announced its 2007 Inductees into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame, which was created to honor and acknowledge men and women of Louisiana who have served their community, state, and nation in the honorable professions of law enforcement, judiciary, and related fields. Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Debra K. Mack, FBI, Mobile Field Office was voted unanimously as a 2007 member, the first ever FBI Special Agent. On Saturday, July 28, 2007, SAC Mack was recognized for her commitment to working with the people of South Alabama to build a better community. SAC Mack has served more than 24 years with the FBI in various offices and positions.

Prior to entering on duty with the FBI, SAC Mack attended Dillard University in New Orleans where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science with a secondary focus in Spanish. Later, she earned a Juris Doctorate Degree from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, subsequently becoming employed by the New Orleans Indigent Defender Program as a Public Defender where she handled a myriad of criminal matters. She also practiced law providing legal defense in civil matters and taught business law at Dillard University in New Orleans and Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.

In January, 1983, SAC Mack began her investigative career as a Special Agent. She has served in the FBI's Atlanta, Buffalo, and Newark Field Offices as well as a New Agent Counselor at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. In December, 1994, SAC Mack was promoted to the FBI's Philadelphia Field Office to supervise a Financial Institution Fraud squad. In September 2000, she became the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Oklahoma City Field Office, at which time, she was responsible for the White Collar Crime, Violent Crime, Organized Crime/Drugs, and Civil Rights Programs.

On February 1, 2005, she was promoted to SAC, FBI Mobile Field Office, (one of two African American females to ever head an FBI Field Office at that time). In this capacity, she is responsible for more than 110 Agent and Professional Support personnel and has oversight of all FBI's operational, investigative, and administrative matters as well as technical operations and financial issues for the southern half of the state of Alabama, which includes 36 counties.

SAC Mack is a member of numerous organizations, to include the Mobile Executive Women Forum, Career Women of Mobile, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority as well as the National Organization for Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), which has provided many opportunities for law enforcement related training and education.