James Brien Comey Jr. was born in 1960 in New York. He is a lawyer who served as the seventh Director of the F. B. I. between 2013 and 2017. He started as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and moved up to the U.S. Deputy Attorney General in 2003. In 2005 Comey left the U.S. Department of Justice and became general counsel and senior vice-president of Lockhead Martin. He later moved on to general counsel at Bridgewater Associates and then to Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School.
President Barack Obama appointed Comey to the position of Director of the FBI in 2013. It was in this role that he oversaw the investigation into the Hillary Clinton email controversary. He was also in charge of the investigation of Russian meddling into the 2016 Presidential Election. He was dismissed from his post on May 9, 2017 by President Donald Trump, possibly to ease the pressure Trump was under due to the Russia investigation.
In April 2018 James Comey released his book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. In his book Comey shares his never before told experiences from some of his high stakes situations of his career.
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