Ellington

Sept. 12, 2011

Jennifer S. Love, a Mississippi native and Jackson State University graduate, is the new assistant director of the FBI's Security Division. Love most recently served as acting assistant director of the FBI's Inspection Division.

Love began her career with the FBI as a financial analyst in the St. Louis Division, and completed New Agents Training in Quantico, Va., in 1987. She started her career as a FBI special agent at the New Orleans Division, then the Chicago Division and returned to the New Orleans Division's Baton Rouge Resident Agency. Love investigated white-collar crime, violent crime and civil rights matters.

In 1997, she became a supervisory special agent in the Office of Professional Responsibility at FBI Headquarters. Love transferred to the Philadelphia Division in 1999 in a supervisory role where she led a white-collar crime and computer-intrusions squad.

Love became assistant special agent in charge in the Baltimore Field Office in 2002. Then, in 2005, she returned to FBI Headquarters as section chief in the Counter-terrorism Division. She oversaw administrative functions and programs, and later oversaw the Counter-terrorism Division's Communication Exploitation Section.

In 2006, Love reported to the Washington Field Office as special agent in charge of the Criminal Division. She was later appointed as special agent in charge of the Richmond Division in 2008. In 2010, she served as deputy assistant director in the Inspection Division where she oversaw the office of Inspections, Inspection Strategic Analysis Section, Internal Investigations Section and External Audit Section.

Love earned a bachelor of science in accounting from JSU in 1983. She worked in the private sector prior to her FBI career.