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Brian R. Beckwith was
appointed Deputy Director of the United States Marshals Service on
August 19, 2007.
Mr. Beckwith is a 21-year veteran of the USMS, who held numerous top
leadership and managerial positions within the Service prior to his
appointment as Deputy Director. Most recently, he served as Assistant
Director for Training, as well as the Chief, Deputy Chief, and Branch
Chief for In-Service Training at the USMS Training Academy.
Mr. Beckwith began his Marshals Service career as a Deputy United States
Marshal in the Newark, New Jersey, office. He later served in the
Portland, Maine office before promoting to an investigator with the
Office of Inspections, Internal Affairs Division at USMS Headquarters.
During his tenure at Headquarters from 1992 to 1995, he also served as
an Inspector with the Threat Analysis Division where he was charged with
analyzing and managing threats to the Judiciary. It was during this time
that he represented the USMS on the Attorney General’s Task Force on
Violence Against Abortion Providers, where he was responsible for
overseeing federal protection to clinics at risk of violence.
Mr. Beckwith has also served as an instructor at the Marshals Service
Training Academy and as the Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for the District
of Oregon. He served in a significant leadership role during the USMS
response to September 11, 2001, and represented the agency on the
Department of Justice Assessment Team that conducted their mission in
Baghdad, Iraq in January 2004. He deployed in response to Hurricane
Katrina along the U.S. Gulf Coast, where he coordinated the initial law
enforcement response in Mississippi. In January 2006, he was hand-picked
to manage the financial oversight and policy formulation for the
Off-Site Judicial Security initiative (HIDS). He has received numerous
honors and awards, including the Attorney General’s Distinguished
Service Award, as well as four USMS “Director’s Awards.”
Prior to his employment with the Marshals Service, Mr. Beckwith was a
Detective with the South Portland, Maine, Police Department. He also
served in the U.S. Army Military Police, both overseas and in the U.S.
from 1979 to 1982. He completed the Executive Leadership Program at the
Center for Creative Leadership in 1999. He and his wife have four
children and live in Virginia.
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