Jeff McCormick

Jeff McCormick brings more than 30 years of law enforcement experience to the FBI National Academy Associates (FBINAA) as its Executive Director. 

A Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for more than twenty years, McCormick served in the FBI’s Philadelphia, Springfield, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh Field Divisions, and twice at FBI Headquarters. He has conducted and supervised Federal investigations of violent and white-collar crimes, public corruption, counterterrorism, and cybercrime. At FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C., he served in the Counterterrorism Division as Chief of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Watch, leading the 24-hour command post for coordination of the Bureau’s response to terrorism threats and incidents around the world. He also served in several positions while assigned to the FBI Academy, including the Firearms Training Unit and Defensive Systems Unit, and as Chief of the Leadership Programs Management Unit and Chief of the FBI National Academy Unit (FBINA). Over three years at the FBINA, he was responsible for the training of more than 3,000 law enforcement professionals from around the globe. 

McCormick retired at the end of 2020 as the Senior Supervisory Resident Agent (SSRA) for the FBI in Charleston, West Virginia, where he supervised FBI investigations in the Southern District of West Virginia. In early 2021, he returned to the FBI as a Supervisory Analyst at the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia. 

In 2022, McCormick was appointed the Chief of Police at Fairmont State University in West Virginia, where he also developed a new Police Academy. As the Director of the Police Academy, McCormick led the inaugural session while also serving the University as an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice. 

Prior to joining the FBI, McCormick served as a patrolman, then detective for the Perry, Georgia Police Department, and a Lieutenant for the Valdosta, Georgia Police Department. McCormick was also the Accreditation Manager for both Departments, leading each to National Accreditation.

McCormick holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Georgia and a Master of Public Administration from the American Military University. He and his wife Shirlene have four children and six grandchildren.