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For Immediate Release
January 23, 2008
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Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
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Janice
K. Fedarcyk Named SAC Philadelphia
Janice
K. Fedarcyk has been named Special Agent in Charge (SAC)
of the FBI's Philadelphia Field Office. Director Robert
S. Mueller, III appointed her to this position to replace
retiring SAC J.P. "Jody" Weis. Most recently,
Ms. Fedarcyk served as SAC of the Counterterrorism Division
in the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office.
Ms.
Fedarcyk entered on duty as a special agent of the FBI in
1987. Upon completion of training at the FBI Academy in
Quantico, Virginia, she was assigned to the Los Angeles
Field Office, where she investigated organized crime, drugs,
money laundering, and gang matters. In November 2006, Ms.
Fedarcyk was promoted to FBI Headquarters, where she coordinated
FBI response to domestic and international crises and special
events. In 1998, Ms. Fedarcyk was selected as the first
FBI liaison assigned to the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children. She transferred to the Baltimore
Field Office in 1999, where she supervised an Innocent Images
National Initiative squad investigating the online exploitation
of children.
In
2001, Ms. Fedarcyk returned to FBI Headquarters as an Assistant
Inspector Team Leader in the Inspection Division. In 2003,
she was selected as the Assistant Section Chief of the Terrorist
Financing Operations Section within the Counterterrorism
Division. Her subsequent promotion to Assistant Special
Agent in Charge in the FBI's Critical Incident Response
Group, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime,
included oversight of FBI components that furnished behavioral
analysis and consultation on a variety of investigative
matters, including terrorism threats, weapons of mass destruction,
and domestic and international terrorism.
In
March 2005, Ms. Fedarcyk was promoted to serve as the FBI's
representative to the National Counterterrorism Center,
Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning. She was instrumental
in leading the development of a classified national strategic
operational plan in the war on terrorism. In September 2006,
she was a group recipient of a Meritorious Unit Citation
presented by the Director of the National Counterterrorism
Center for contributions to the Interagency Counterterrorism
Strategic Planning Community. In January 2006, Ms. Fedarcyk
was promoted to the position of Inspector at FBI Headquarters.
In that position, she led inspection teams in comprehensive
assessments of FBI offices and entities.
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