After discussing the details within the investigation of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails, FBI Director James Comey has been using his position to create transparency and a sense of understanding between the American people and one of the nations most important organizations. Director Comey also made a stop in Washington D.C., where he participated in a hearing and was questioned about the FBI’s decision to recommend no charges for Clinton’s use of a private server.

In the midst of the questioning and discussion about the FBI’s decisions and investigation, Comey’s participation in these events has shown the importance of organizations like the FBI, and the how the cooperation of their leaders is necessary to the security of justice in the United States.

In 2013, President Obama swore Comey into his position of FBI director. While working as the director, Comey has worked with technology experts to access the information in phones of terrorism suspects and has directed the FBI into conducting investigations dealing with terrorism growing within the United States.

Prior to his work as the FBI director, James Comey was the General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed Martin is a company that focuses on aerospace, defense, advanced technology and security.

At Lockheed Martin, one of the Pentagon’s biggest defense contractors, Comey lead a team of 140 lawyers.

Before working with Lockheed Martin, Comey was an important part of the Bush administration, working as the Deputy Attorney General from 2003 to 2005. As Deputy Attorney General Comey disputed the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. Comey along with other senior officials, threatened to resign from their positions if their concerns about this program were ignored.

During his years as an attorney away from Washington, Comey spent time in New York, working on high profile cases such as Martha Stewart’s fraud case and the prosecution of the Gambino crime family.

Comey also spent time in Richmond, Virginia where he worked with the Khobar Towers bombing case, which focused on the 1996 attack on an American military facility in Saudi Arabia. While working in Virginia, Comey also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond School of Law.

Comey graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and religion. He earned a law degree at the University of Chicago.

As a young law clerk in Manhattan, Comey witnessed an event that increased his passion for law and increased his commitment to serving others. This incident was the hearing for Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, a former mob boss for the Genovese crime family during the 1980s.

“I watched two young prosecutors put government agents on the stand and learned about wire tapping and other means of incriminating these mobsters,” Comey said, in an interview with (201) Magazine. “I called my girlfriend, now my wife, Patrice, and I told her I wanted to be a prosecutor in New York City.”

Not only did Comey achieve this goal of becoming a New York City prosecutor, but he also worked his way up to one of the most important jobs in law enforcement, the Deputy Attorney General. Now, as the director of the FBI, Comey has been able to serve justice within his country and participate in high profile cases with integrity and objectivity.