WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- The FBI has named a new head of the Terrorist Screening Center, the multi-agency entity which maintains the U.S. government's terrorist watch-lists.
Leonard Boyle, currently the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Safety, was named Wednesday in a statement from FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Boyle previously worked for the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut, which he joined in 1986, and where he was made head of the Criminal Division, supervising 30 federal prosecutors and all U.S. criminal prosecutions in the state, in 1994.
In 1998, he left the U.S. attorney's office for 15 months to work in private practice, but returned there in 1999 before his appointment as commissioner of the Department of Public Safety in 2004.
Boyle graduated from the University of Hartford in 1980 and got his law degree in 1983 from the University Of Connecticut School Of Law. Fresh out of law school, Boyle clerked for state Chief Justice John A. Speziale.
Boyle replaces the center's first director, Donna Bucella, who left last year.
