UCO Forensic Science Institute Executive Director
John Mabry served 24 years as a Special Agent, Supervisory Special Agent, and Chief Division Counsel for the FBI. His duty assignments included Norfolk, VA; Houston, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; and as a Profiler in the Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit (BAU) at Quantico, VA. During his FBI career, Mabry worked and supervised primarily violent crimes, to include serial homicides, child abductions, bank robberies, fugitives and organized crime. He was a sniper on the FBI SWAT Teams in Norfolk and Houston and a recipient of the Excellence in Investigations Award from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. During the Oklahoma City Bombing case, Mabry supervised the disposition of the evidence in the case and was instrumental in the transfer of many historical items to the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial and Museum. Mabry was born and raised in Enid, received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Tennessee (1981) and a J.D. from the University of Alabama (1984). Prior to joining the FBI, he served as a law clerk in Miami, FL for the Honorable Judge Peter T. Fay, United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. He retired from the FBI in 2009 to join the faculty of the UCO Forensic Science Institute and the School of Criminal Justice. After 16 years of teaching, he was appointed Director of the FSI in June of 2024.