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{{Short description|Senior United States government position}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox political post
|post = Deputy Director
|body = the Federal Bureau of Investigation
| insignia            = US-FBI-ShadedSeal.svg
| insigniasize        = 120
| insigniacaption     = Seal of the FBI
| flag                = Flag of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.svg
| flagsize            = 130
| flagcaption         = Flag of the FBI
|reports_to = [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation]]
|image = Abbate Press Conference Photo (cropped).jpg
|incumbent = [[Paul Abbate]]
|incumbentsince = February 1, 2021
|appointer = Director of the FBI
|inaugural = [[Clyde Tolson]] (BOI)
|formation = 1930 (as Associate Director)
|deputy = [[Associate Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation]]
}}
The '''Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation''' (formerly known as the '''Associate Director''') is a senior [[Federal government of the United States|United States government]] position in the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. The office is second in command to the [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. If the director is absent or the position is vacant, the deputy director automatically takes on the additional title and role of acting director. The office is also the highest position attainable within the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] without being appointed by the [[President of the United States]]. Responsibilities as deputy director include assisting the director and leading prominent investigations. All other FBI executives and special agents in charge report to the director through the deputy director. From 1978 to 1987, the position of deputy director was not filled due to [[William Hedgcock Webster]]'s decision to divide the deputy's responsibility between three positions.
[[Paul Abbate]], former associate deputy director of the FBI, was named deputy director on February 1, 2021.
== Deputy directors ==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2" | No.
! class="unsortable" rowspan="2" | Portrait
! rowspan="2" | Officeholder
! rowspan="2" |Director
! rowspan="2" |President
! colspan="2" | Term
|-
! Start
! End
|-
| rowspan="7" | 1
| rowspan="7" | [[File:Clyde Tolson.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan="7" | [[Clyde Tolson]]
| rowspan="7" |[[J. Edgar Hoover]]
|[[Herbert Hoover]]
| rowspan="7" | 1930
| rowspan="7" | May 2, 1972
|-
|[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
|-
|[[Harry S. Truman]]
|-
|[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
|-
|[[John F. Kennedy]]
|-
|[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
|-
|[[Richard Nixon]]
|-
| 2
| [[File:MarkFelt.jpg|60px]]
| [[Mark Felt]]
|Vacant
|[[Richard Nixon]]
| May 3, 1972
| June 22, 1973
|-
| rowspan="3" | 3
| rowspan="4" | [[File:Jbadams.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan="4" | [[James B. Adams]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Clarence M. Kelley]]
|[[Richard Nixon]]
| rowspan="3" | June 22, 1973
| rowspan="3" | February 5, 1978
|-
|[[Gerald Ford]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Jimmy Carter]]
|-
| 4
| rowspan="3" |[[William H. Webster]]
| April 6, 1978
| May 11, 1979
|-
| rowspan="4" | 5
| rowspan="4" | [[File:Clarke-lg.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan="4" | [[Floyd I. Clarke]]
| rowspan="4" | May 11, 1979
| rowspan="4" | July 19, 1993
|-
|[[Ronald Reagan]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[William S. Sessions]]
|[[George H. W. Bush]]
|-
| rowspan="8" |[[Bill Clinton]]
|-
| 6
|
| [[David G. Binney]]
| rowspan="7" |[[Louis Freeh]]
| February 1994
| December 1994
|-
| —
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | [[Larry A. Potts]]
| February 1995
| May 2, 1995
|-
| 7
| May 2, 1995
| July 14, 1995
|-
| 8
|
| [[Weldon L. Kennedy]]
| August 8, 1995
| February 1997
|-
| 9
|
| [[William J. Esposito]]
| February 28, 1997
| September 30, 1997<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/11/us/no-2-man-at-fbi-important-manager-retires-this-month.html|title=No. 2 Man at F.B.I., Important Manager, Retires This Month|first=David|last=Johnston|work=The New York Times |date=September 11, 1997 |access-date=January 29, 2018|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
|-
|10
|
|Robert M. Bryant<ref>{{Cite web |title=Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20 - ROBERT M. BRYANT, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, FED |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRECB-1999-pt20/html/CRECB-1999-pt20-Pg29698.htm |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=www.govinfo.gov}}</ref>
|October 1,1997
|October 31, 1999
|-
| rowspan="2" | 11
| rowspan="2" | [[File:Pickard-lg.jpg|60px]]
| [[Thomas J. Pickard]]
| rowspan="2" | November 1, 1999
| rowspan="2" | November 30, 2001<ref>{{cite press release |publisher=FBI |title=FBI Deputy Director Thomas J. Pickard Announces his Retirement |url=https://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/pickard103101.htm |access-date=May 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070522100745/http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/pickard103101.htm |archive-date=May 22, 2007}}</ref>
|-
|[[Thomas J. Pickard]]
| rowspan="6" |[[Robert Mueller]]
| rowspan="3" |[[George W. Bush]]
|-
| 12
|
| [[Bruce J. Gebhardt]]
| 2002
| 2004
|-
| rowspan="2" | 13
| rowspan="2" | [[File:John Pistole - FBI portrait (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| rowspan="2" | [[John S. Pistole]]
| rowspan="2" | October 1, 2004
| rowspan="2" | May 17, 2010
|-
| rowspan="6" |[[Barack Obama]]
|-
| 14
| [[File:Timothy P Murphy.jpg|60px]]
| [[Timothy P. Murphy]]
| July 8, 2010
| August 31, 2011
|-
| rowspan="2" | 15
| rowspan="2" | [[File:Sean M. Joyce (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Sean M. Joyce]]
| rowspan="2" | September 1, 2011
| rowspan="2" | November 30, 2013
|-
| rowspan="4" |[[James Comey]]
|-
| 16
| [[File:Mark F Giuliano.jpg|60px]]
| [[Mark F. Giuliano]]
| December 1, 2013
| February 1, 2016
|-
| rowspan="3" | 17
| rowspan="3" | [[File:Andrew McCabe official portrait (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| rowspan="3" | [[Andrew McCabe]]
| rowspan="3" | February 1, 2016<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/andrew-mccabe-named-deputy-director-of-the-fbi |title=Andrew G. McCabe Named Deputy Director of the FBI |publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] |date=January 29, 2016 |access-date=October 31, 2016}}</ref>
| rowspan="3" | January 29, 2018<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/29/fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-frequent-target-of-trumps-ire-steps-down-nbc-news.html |title=FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, frequent target of Trump's ire, steps down: NBC News |first=Jacob |last=Pramuk |website=[[CNBC]] |date=January 29, 2018 |access-date=January 29, 2018}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Donald Trump]]
|-
| rowspan="4" |[[Christopher A. Wray]]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 18
| rowspan="2" | [[File:David Bowdich official photo (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| rowspan="2" | [[David Bowdich]]
| rowspan="2" | January 30, 2018
| rowspan="2" | February 1, 2021
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Joe Biden]]
|-
| 19
| [[File:Abbate Press Conference Photo (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| [[Paul Abbate]]
| February 1, 2021
| ''Incumbent''
|}
==Fictional deputy directors==
* [[Alvin Kersh]], the deputy director of the FBI on ''[[The X-Files]]''.
* [[Avery Ryan]], the deputy director of the FBI and the director of the FBI's Cyber division. She is the protagonist of ''[[CSI: Cyber]]''.
* Miranda Shaw, the deputy director of the FBI on ''[[Quantico (TV series)|Quantico]]''.
* Owen Hall, the deputy director of the FBI on ''[[Quantico (TV series)|Quantico]]''.
*[[Gordon Cole (Twin Peaks)|Gordon Cole]], the deputy director of the FBI on ''[[Twin Peaks (season 3)|Twin Peaks]]''.
*Victor Fitzgerald, deputy director of the FBI on ''[[Without a Trace]]''.
*Jason Atwood, the deputy director of the FBI on ''[[Designated Survivor (TV series)|Designated Survivor]]''.
*Douglas Bailey, the deputy director of the FBI on ''[[Criminal Minds]]''.
*Harold Cooper, the deputy director of the FBI on ''[[The Blacklist]]''.
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