Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

The **Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation** (known as the **Associate Director** before) is a senior United States government position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

## Deputy directors

|rowspan="2"|No.|class="unsortable" rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan="2"|Officeholder|colspan="2"|Term|rowspan="2"|Director|rowspan="2"|President|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="7"|1|rowspan="7"||rowspan="7"|Clyde Tolson|rowspan="7"|1930|rowspan="7"|May 2, 1972|rowspan="7"|J. Edgar Hoover|Herbert Hoover||
|Franklin D. Roosevelt||||||||||||||
|Harry S. Truman||||||||||||||
|Dwight D. Eisenhower||||||||||||||
|John F. Kennedy||||||||||||||
|Lyndon B. Johnson||||||||||||||
|Richard Nixon||||||||||||||
|2||Mark Felt|May 3, 1972|June 22, 1973|Vacant|Richard Nixon||||||||
|rowspan="3"|3|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|James B. Adams|rowspan="3"|June 22, 1973|rowspan="3"|February 5, 1978|rowspan="3"|Clarence M. Kelley|Richard Nixon||
|Gerald Ford||||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|Jimmy Carter|||||||||||||
|4|April 6, 1978|May 11, 1979|rowspan="3"|William H. Webster||||||||||
|rowspan="4"|5|rowspan="4"||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|February 1994|December 1994|rowspan="7"|Louis Freeh||||||||
|rowspan="2"|7|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Larry A. Potts|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|February 1995|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|May 2, 1995|||||
|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||||||||||
|10||Robert M. Bryant|October 1, 1997|October 31, 1999||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|11|rowspan="2"||Thomas J. Pickard|rowspan="2"|November 1, 1999|rowspan="2"|November 30, 2001||||||
|Thomas J. Pickard|rowspan="6"|Robert Mueller|rowspan="3"|George W. Bush||||||||||
|12||Bruce J. Gebhardt|2002|2004||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|13|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|John S. Pistole|rowspan="2"|October 1, 2004|rowspan="2"|May 17, 2010|||||
|rowspan="6"|Barack Obama|||||||||||||
|14||Timothy P. Murphy|July 8, 2010|August 31, 2011||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|15|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Sean M. Joyce|rowspan="2"|September 1, 2011|rowspan="2"|November 30, 2013|||||
|rowspan="4"|James Comey|||||||||||||
|16||Mark F. Giuliano|December 1, 2013|February 1, 2016||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|17|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Andrew McCabe|rowspan="3"|February 1, 2016|rowspan="3"|January 29, 2018|||||
|rowspan="4"|Donald Trump|||||||||||||
|rowspan="5"|Christopher A. Wray|||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|18|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|David Bowdich|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 29, 2018|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|April 13, 2018|||||
|April 13, 2018|February 1, 2021|||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|February 1, 2021|||||||||||||
|19||Paul Abbate|January 20, 2025|Joe Biden||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Robert Kissane|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2025|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|March 17, 2025|rowspan="2"|Kash Patel|rowspan="2"|Donald Trump|
|20||Dan Bongino|March 17, 2025|January 3, 2026||||||||||

## 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**: Andrew Bailey, official portrait (2025).jpg
- **incumbent**: Andrew Bailey
- **incumbentsince**: September 15, 2025
- **appointer**: Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- **inaugural**: Clyde Tolson (BOI)
- **formation**: 1930 (as Associate Director)
- **deputy**: Associate Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation