Mark D. Clookie

Mark D. Clookie joined the Naval Investigative Service (NIS) in March of 1982 at the NIS Resident Agency in Newport, Rhode Island. He would rise through the ranks while serving in Bahrain in 1993, before to the States in 1995, moving onto Japan in 1998 before returning to Washington, DC in 2000. Clookie would serve at the Pentagon as the Chief of the Joint Staff Support Branch, Joint Counterintelligence Center (J2CI). After 9/11, Clookie assumed duties as the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the NCIS Middle East Field Office, headquartered in Manama, Bahrain. After two years in the Middle East, Clookie returned to the States as the Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director for Management and Administration at NCIS Headquarters in Washington, DC. In October 2007, Clookie was promoted to Senior Executive Service and assumed responsibilities as the Executive Assistant Director for Middle East and Pacific Operations. In April 2009, Clookie was reassigned as the Executive Assistant Director for Combating Terrorism. On February 14, 2010, Clookie was appointed as Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) by Ray Mabus, the Secretary of the Navy.