Indian American Special Agent Sohini Sinha Named Assistant Director of FBI’s Victim Services Division
- The daughter of a Hindu father and a Methodist mother, she most recently in charge of the Salt Lake City Field Office.
Indian American Sohini Sinha has been appointed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as assistant director of the Victim Services Division. She most recently served as special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City Field Office.
Sinha joined the FBI as a special agent in 2001, shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks. She has spent the past 22 years “dealing with threats both internationally and domestically,” she told FOX 13 News in November 2023 after her appointment in Utah. She was “one of only six female trainees out of 50” who made it through the FBI academy, she told the news outlet.
But she told that “the denigration of law enforcement and the FBI in particular” bothered her. “We speak through our work,” she said. “We do the right thing, the right way, it is about the rule of law and rigor in our investigations and in the end, the work stands for itself,” she told FOX 13 News.
The daughter of a Hindu father from India, and a Methodist mother, Sinha told FOX 13 News that “her parents’ story has given her perspective on life and how to get things done when challenges are thrown her way.”
After joining the FBI, Sinha was first assigned to the Milwaukee Field Office, where she worked in counterterrorism investigations, according to her FBI profile. She also served in temporary assignments at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, the FBI Legal Attaché Office in London, and the Baghdad Operations Center,” according to her profile.
She was promoted in 2009 to supervisory special agent and transferred to the Counterterrorism Division in Washington, D.C. She served as program manager of Canada-based extraterritorial investigations and facilitated liaison efforts with Washington, D.C.-based Canadian liaison officers. She served as program manager of Canada-based extraterritorial investigations and facilitated liaison efforts with Washington-based Canadian liaison officers.
PIN ITShe was promoted in 2012 to assistant legal attaché in Ottawa, Canada, working on counterterrorism matters in collaboration with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. In 2015, she was promoted to field supervisor in the Detroit Field Office, where she led squads responsible for investigating international terrorism matters.
In early 2020, Sinha transferred to the Cyber Intrusion squad, which worked both national security and criminal cyber intrusion matters. Later in 2020, she was promoted to assistant special agent in charge for national security matters, and later criminal matters, in the Portland Field Office. She was selected to serve as the executive special assistant to the director in 2021.
Before her employment with the FBI, Sinha worked as a therapist and later as an administrator for a private, not-for-profit clinic. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Purdue University in Indiana.