2007 Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame Inductee
FBI Special Agent in Charge
Debra K. 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 in 2005 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.

  

      The Mobile Division of the FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Debra K. Mack was voted unanimously as a 2007 member, the first ever FBI Special Agent. SAC Mack, who is a native of New Orleans, is being recognized for her commitment to working with the people of South Alabama to build a better community. SAC Mack has served over 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 in Political Science with a secondary focus in Spanish. Later, she earned a Juris Doctorate from the 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. Six years later, in September 2000, she became the Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) 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, SAC. Mack was promoted to Special Agent in Charge, 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 support personnel and has oversight of all FBI’s operational, investigative, and administrative matters as well as all technical operations and financial issues for the southern half of Alabama, which includes 36 counties.