As a former FBI Agent and current Assistant Director of the University of Central Oklahoma's (UCO) Forensic Science Institute, Dr. Thomas Jourdan will speak about the new forensic science academic program at UCO and about several interesting FBI Laboratory forensic cases.

At the end of December 2006, Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Jourdan retired from the FBI to assume two roles at the University of Central Oklahoma, those positions being Assistant Director, Forensic Science Institute (FSI), and Associate Professor of Chemistry.  Dr. Jourdan’s primary responsibility at the FSI is the extra-territorial program, which is coordinated with the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).  Since coming to UCO, he has participated in IAEA training courses in Pakistan, Brazil, China, India, Singapore, and South Africa.

The Kingwood Rotary Club meeting will be at the Kingwood Country Club on Thursday, March 19th at 6:30pm.  Call 281-359-7193 to RSVP if you would like to attend.  Visit www.kwrotary.org to learn more.

Upon graduating from the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, Special Agent (SA) Jourdan was first assigned to the FBI office in Alexandria, Virginia, and then 2 years later to the Washington, D.C. Field Office (WFO).  After serving 4 years at WFO, 2 ½ of them being detailed to the Lockerbie Incident Control Centre, Lockerbie, Scotland, as the Bureau's liaison to the Scottish Police during the PanAm 103 investigation, now SSA Jourdan was transferred to the FBI  Laboratory.  After serving as a bench examiner in the Chemistry and Toxicology Unit for four years, he became Chief of the Materials Analysis Unit, moving on from there to become the Chief of the Materials and Devices Unit, the latter giving him oversight of the Bureau’s post-blast bombing crime scene group.  Over the course of these last three assignments, SSA Jourdan participated in a number of bombing investigations, to include the World Trade Center, Atlanta’s Olympic Park, UNABOM, Oklahoma City, and the Dar es Salaam and Nairobi Embassies.  SSA Jourdan was next assigned to the newly-formed FBI Resident Agency at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as the interface between the FBI and the Department of Energy’s national laboratory complex, in particular for weapons of mass destruction (WMD), forensic casework matters, and special inquiries.

 

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