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Louie T. McKinney
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Louie
T. McKinney was appointed by President George W. Bush as
the Acting Director of the United States Marshals
Service on February 9, 2001. McKinney joined the US
Marshals Service as a Deputy US Marshal in 1968. He
further served in several leadership capacities
including Chief Inspector for Interpol and Deputy Chief
of Witness Security. Additionally, he was twice
appointed by the Attorney General to be the US Marshal
for the Virgin Islands. At the time of his retirement in
1994, he was Chief of the Enforcement Division,
responsible for numerous fugitive investigations and
initiatives.
Mr. McKinney’s prior experience also includes 7 years in
the US Navy, 5 years as an officer with the Metropolitan
Police Department in DC, and 2 years with the CIA. With
more than 40 years of service to his country, McKinney
has received numerous awards and citations, including
several from the Attorney General and the White House.
Louie T McKinney is the author of One Marshal's
Badge: A Memoir of Fugitive Hunting, Witness Protection,
and the U.S. Marshals Service.
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According to the book description of
One Marshal's Badge: A Memoir of
Fugitive Hunting, Witness Protection,
and the U.S. Marshals Service,
"While many people are familiar with
the U.S. Marshals Service’s reputation
from frontier days, when legendary
lawmen such as Wyatt Earp and Bat
Masterson enforced the Wild West, the
agency’s modern exploits are less well
known. One Marshal’s Badge sheds light
on the service’s valuable role in
current national and international
affairs through the intriguing figure
of Louie McKinney, the agency’s former
director.
McKinney’s life is an inspirational
story of personal fortitude and
professional achievement. Growing up a
sharecropper’s son in the segregated
South, McKinney rose to become the
first career deputy to lead the
Marshals Service. Prior to his
promotion, McKinney contributed to the
agency in many groundbreaking ways,
including helping to restore order to
the skies after a rash of airline
hijackings in the early 1970s;
guarding prisoner John Hinckley, the
man who attempted to assassinate
President Ronald Reagan, as a yearlong
assignment; transporting criminals to
trial and to prison in his own car
before the creation of Con Air;
enforcing the integration of Southern
public schools as a black deputy
marshal; and heading an innovative
sting operation that netted hundreds
of fugitives by enticing them with
free football tickets.
One Marshal’s Badge offers a rare
glimpse into the Marshal Service’s
inner workings, especially its witness
protection program and elite SWAT
team, and is an eyewitness account of
the social turbulence that defined
American history in the late twentieth
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