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menuFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 12, 2016
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(304) 462-4115
Special Agent Julie Lecea
GLENVILLE, WV – Special Agent Julie Lecea from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations will be hosting a presentation at ÏãåúÖ±²¥ State College on Wednesday, October 12 at 1:00 p.m. in the Mollohan Campus Community Center room 315. Her presentation will focus on careers in the United States Air Force and in forensic science.
Special Agent Julie A. Lecea is a Criminal Investigations and Forensic Sciences specialist at HQ, Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), Quantico, VA. She currently chairs a number of Defense Criminal Investigative Organization (DCIO) working groups focused on improving interoperability and finding efficiencies within the forensics and biometrics disciplines. Lecea was born in Flint, MI and after graduating high school, she entered the United States Air Force Academy, where she graduated in 1997 with military distinction and earned a bachelor of science degree in behavioral sciences. Lecea was selected for duty with AFOSI and graduated from the AF Special Investigations Academy in Dec 1997. She has fulfilled AFOSI responsibilities at several organizational levels, including a tour as a Forensic Sciences Consultant during which she provided forensic expertise on major violent crime cases to 23 AFOSI offices located in the south central United States. She earned a Master of Forensic Science degree from George Washington University in 2002, and has been active in multiple national level policy working groups related to forensic sciences and sexual assault investigations. She separated from the military after honorably serving for eleven years, and was hired by AFOSI as a civilian federal agent in September, 2004. Lecea has served in multiple leadership roles, including as the Special Agent in Charge at Luke AFB, AZ from 2007-2010, and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on a joint leadership assignment for six months in 2009.
For more information about the presentation contact Marisha Lecea at Marisha.Lecea@glenville.edu or (304) 462-6288.