FBI Names New Director of Criminal Investigations Division – Tickle The Wire

By Steve Neavling

B. Chad Yarbrough, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, has been named Director of the Criminal Investigations Division.

Originally from the Dallas area, he joined the bureau as a special agent in 2006. He was initially assigned to the Dothan Resident Agency of the Mobile Field Office in Alabama to investigate violent crimes and crimes against children.

In 2010, Yarbrough was transferred to the Chicago Field Office and became a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, where he investigated domestic terrorism cases.

In 2012, Yarbrough was promoted to supervisory special agent and worked in the Internal Investigations Division of the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters.

In 2014, he became a supervisory special agent in charge of the Mobile Field Office’s Violent Criminal Threats Unit, overseeing Mobile’s Child Exploitation and Safe Streets task forces.

In 2017, Yarbrough became an assistant special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office, where he oversaw the criminal, crisis management, and SWAT programs. Yarbrough led the FBI’s investigation into the 2018 attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue.

In 2020, Yarborough became section chief of the agency’s National Threat Operations division.

In 2021, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigations Division at FBI Headquarters, where he will oversee the Transnational Organized Crime, Violent Crime, and Operational Support Divisions.

Before joining the FBI, Yarbrough worked in the Fort Worth, Texas, area as a special agent for the Criminal Investigative Division of the Internal Revenue Service. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Sam Houston State University in Texas.