Julia Cowley

with other federal agencies, state and locals as well.

It's really important to have a good relationship.

It's not always possible.

Sometimes you have disagreements and the FBI can get a bad reputation sometimes, but you do your best.

So that is my career in a nutshell.

So I have a little bit of forensic science background.

I have a little bit of criminal profiling.

I actually have some white collar experience as well, some violent crime.

That's my more than 22 years, if you count my time in the laboratory.

There was a specific moment and I had about five years in the FBI where I had a new supervisor come in and this was when I was working public corruption and he had never worked public corruption.

He had come from working violent crime for most of his career.

I should say he was a very experienced agent, but he had worked violent crime for a number of

years.

Then he went to headquarters where he supervised organized crime unit.

And then he was selected to come to the Boston Division to be the public corruption supervisor.

And by that point, I'd been on the squad for a number of years.

And I'd been acting supervisor, even though I didn't feel like I was ready for that role.

But sometimes you just have to do what you're told.

And

And he was asking me about investigations and about the violation and how to do things and who was who.