Jul 27, 2022 · J. Edgar Hoover, who served as FBI director for nearly half a century, said women could not be agents. Within weeks of his death, that changed, and the first female special agents of the...

Today, there are more than 2,600 female special agents serving on and leading counterterrorism squads, cyber squads, counterintelligence squads, and criminal squads.

Jul 7, 2022 · Fifty years after the first women entered the Training Academy, female agents are leading and shaping the FBI. Just ten days after J. Edgar Hoover died in May 1972, the acting …

Mar 28, 2019 · As the FBI celebrates 100 years of African-American special agents and observes Women’s History Month, we remember Sylvia Mathis, the first African-American woman to serve as an FBI agent.

Mar 29, 2025 · In this episode, active and retired FBI agents review historical documents and share stories about Director Hoover’s initial rejection, the Bureau’s eventual acceptance of female agents in the FBI, and their personal FBI career journeys as women.

Apr 8, 2016 · When Brenda Berenice Delgado was added this week, she became the 506th person ever to be part of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list — and only the ninth …

Alaska Packard Davidson (March 1, 1868 – July 16, 1934) was an American law enforcement officer who is best known for being the first female special agent in the FBI.

Sylvia Elizabeth Mathis (July 7, 1949 – October 22, 1983) was the first African-American woman to become a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After serving for three years, Mathis left the agency, later dying in a car accident. Mathis was born on July 7, 1949. She was raised in both North Carolina and Florida.

Oct 6, 2023 · At the time, Monroe was the first female FBI agent to win a coveted spot with the agency’s Behavioral Sciences Unit, or BSU. The bodies of Rogers and her daughters were …

Joanne Pierce Misko (January 7, 1941 – December 13, 2024) was an American nun and FBI agent who, in 1972, was one of the first women to join the FBI as an agent. [1][2]