Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has named Brian Dugan as the assistant director of the Training Division. Most recently, Mr. Dugan served as the special agent in charge of the Norfolk Field Office in Virginia.
Mr. Dugan joined the FBI as a special agent in 1998 and was first assigned to the San Diego Field Office, where he largely worked domestic terrorism cases. He transferred to the San Francisco Field Office in 1999 to conduct gang investigations.
In 2006, Mr. Dugan reported to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, as an instructor and developed new law enforcement and human intelligence courses for the FBI. He left the Academy in 2009 to work on a violent gang squad in the Northern Virginia Resident Agency of the Washington Field Office.
Mr. Dugan was promoted to supervisory special agent and transferred to the Chicago Field Office in 2013 to lead a squad investigating child pornography and human trafficking. He also established a new gang squad addressing gun and gang violence on the North Side. In 2017, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of a counterintelligence branch at the Washington Field Office.
In 2019, Mr. Dugan was promoted to section chief in the Directorate of Intelligence at FBI Headquarters. He was promoted to special agent in charge of the Norfolk Field Office in 2020.
Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Dugan served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and rose to captain and served in Japan, Korea, and Russia. He earned a Bachelor’s of Science in criminal justice from Pennsylvania State University and a Master’s in Business Administration from Touro University of California.