DENVER—A 31-year FBI veteran has been chosen to lead Denver’s FBI office, officials said Friday.
Robert Garrity Jr., a Baltimore native, begins his new assignment Sept. 4. He replaces Richard Powers who left June 11 to the post of assistant director of the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs.
As head of Denver’s field office, Garrity will oversee the activities of about 150 agents in 11 field offices throughout Colorado and Wyoming.
Garrity, 54, has a law degree and a master’s of public administration. He most recent assignment was the FBI’s deputy chief information officer responsible for the FBI’s data technology efforts.
Garrity began his career in Savannah, Ga., in 1976 and has worked in New York, Washington, Dallas and Jackson, Miss., where he was special agent in charge.
His assignments included overseeing counterintelligence activities against the Soviet KGB.
