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For Immediate Release
March 28, 2008
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Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
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Timothy Cox Named SAC of Louisville
Timothy D. Cox has been named Special Agent
in Charge (SAC) of the FBI’s Louisville Division.
Director Robert S. Mueller, III appointed him to this position
to replace SAC Tracy A. Reinhold, who is now Deputy Assistant
Director of the National
Security Targeting and Response Branch in the FBI’s
Directorate of Intelligence. Most recently, Mr. Cox served
as Section Chief of the Human Resources Division at FBI
Headquarters.
Mr. Cox entered on duty as a special agent
with the FBI in 1986. Upon completion of training at the
FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he was assigned to
the Tampa Division’s
Sarasota resident agency working drugs and reactive matters.
Mr. Cox was responsible for having the first child molester
named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and
featured on “America’s Most Wanted.” In
1991, Mr. Cox transferred to the Atlanta Division’s
Augusta resident agency, where he continued to work drug
and reactive investigations. He initiated a task force
investigation into a violent Virgin Islands drug smuggling
gang—responsible for over a dozen homicides, including
two Virgin Islands Police Officers. In January 1996, he
was assigned to the Olympic Squad in Atlanta covering security
matters.
In 1998, Mr. Cox was promoted to FBI Headquarters as a
supervisor in the Executive Development and Selection Unit.
He was later named White Collar Crime Squad Supervisor
in the Tampa Division in March 2000. Following an eight
month assignment as Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge
(ASAC) in Tampa, he was designated as Supervisory Senior
Resident Agent of the Pinellas resident agency, covering
Clearwater and St. Petersburg, Florida. In March 2004,
Mr. Cox was selected as Knoxville ASAC responsible for
all programs until the arrival of a second ASAC in November
2005. In November 2006, Mr. Cox was named as the Chief
of the Executive Development and Selection Program Section.
A native of North Carolina, Mr. Cox graduated
in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduation, he
returned to his hometown of Asheboro and worked as a zookeeper
at the North Carolina State Zoo. Following a lifelong goal,
in 1980 he entered into law enforcement by accepting a
position with the High Point, North Carolina Police Department.
As a police officer, he served in the Patrol Division and
the Vice and Narcotics Division, worked a variety of undercover
assignments, and was a founding member of the SWAT Team.
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