Christopher Wray
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Christopher Asher Wray was born in December 1967 in New York City. He attended the Buckley School and the private boarding school Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Wray graduated from Yale University and earned his Juris Doctor at Yale Law School. He spent a year clerking at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
He joined government service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Wray to be the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate and served in that position for two years.
Wray spent the next two years in the private practice of law, representing several Fortune 500 companies.
In June 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Wray to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support. He assumed his post in August 2017.
Wray is married to Helen Garrison Howell, and they have two children.
In the News…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently updated its previously reported crime statistics for 2022 in its Uniform Crime Report.
The FBI had published the crime data in September of 2023 for the prior year, which indicated the rate of violent crime fell 2.1 percent. Instead, in the bureau’s revision of this “final” data, violent crime is shown to have risen 4.5 percent from 2021 to 2022. The update reveals 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, over 33,000 additional robberies, and more than 37,000 additional aggravated assaults.
One expert stated that, historically, revisions to published crime data have been less than a percentage point. Another pointed out that the revision in 2022 crime statistics comes three weeks before the presidential election. Neither Director Wray nor the bureau has released an explanation for the uncharacteristically large adjustment in numbers.
Contact this Leader…
Did you pray for Director Wray today? You can let him know at:
The Honorable Christopher Wray, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
935 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20535
