James Dinkins

James A. "Jim" Dinkins (born 1966) is an American law enforcement officer and business executive who served as the first head of Homeland Security Investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2010 to 2014. He is a senior vice president and director of operations of Enterprise Financial Crimes Compliance for U.S. Bancorp.

Early life and education Dinkins was born in Pontiac, Michigan. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Detroit in 1988.

Career U.S. Customs and Homeland Security (1986–2010) Dinkins began his career with the federal government in 1986, interning with the US Customs Service as a co-operative education program student. In 2006, he became Special Agent in Charge of the Baltimore field office, and became Special Agent in Charge of the Washington, DC field office in 2008.

Head of HSI (2010–2014) In January 2010, Dinkins was promoted to the ICE Director of Investigations, where he established and served as the first executive associate director of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) when the unit was formed in June 2010 as a new division of the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement. HSI was formed by merging the intelligence, domestic and international investigative divisions of ICE, and is primarily devoted to investigating illegal acts including human, arms and drug trafficking; possession of weapons of mass destruction; money laundering; and cyber crimes. As head of HSI, Dinkins supervised a 9,000+ employee organization with 200 US offices and 72 overseas locations in 47 countries, working under the Obama administration. From 2010 through 2012, HSI achieved a record number of criminal ICE arrests, with successful investigations of commercial fraud, child exploitation, human trafficking and financial crimes.

Dinkins served as head of HSI until his retirement from federal law enforcement in April 2014.

Later career (2014–present) After nearly three decades with the US federal government, in 2014, Dinkins joined Thomson Reuters Special Services business unit as vice president and general manager, developing tools for government and large businesses to access and analyze information including financial, legal and scientific data.

In 2015, Dinkins was named senior vice president and director of operations for Enterprise Financial Crimes Compliance for US Bank.