James Comey
American lawyer and former FBI director
James Comey is an American lawyer and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He wrote A Higher Loyalty and Saving Justice.
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American Born 1960 in Yonkers, United States
About James Comey
Comey was born in Yonkers, New York, on December 14, 1960. He attended the College of William and Mary, went on to law school at the University of Chicago, and began his career as a federal prosecutor in New York. He was US Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2002 to 2003, then Deputy Attorney General until 2005. He later worked as general counsel at Lockheed Martin and at Bridgewater Associates, and in 2013 joined Columbia Law School as a senior research scholar. President Barack Obama appointed him FBI director in September 2013, and President Donald Trump dismissed him in May 2017. His first book, A Higher Loyalty, was adapted into the Showtime limited series The Comey Rule in 2020.