Donnie R. Marshall
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Donnie R. Marshall is an American federal agent who served as the 7th
Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration The Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a United States federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug trafficking and d ...
(DEA) from 1999 to 2001.


Early life and education

Marshall was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up in
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. He received a B.S. degree from
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in Nacogdoches, Texas. He worked as a firefighter for the city of Nacogdoches while attending college. Marshall is married to Catherine, a native of
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, and has three children, Emory, Ross and Elissa.


Career

From 1984–1986, Marshall served as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of DEA's Dallas Division. He also served as a Senior Inspector in the Office of Professional Responsibility, as the Deputy Regional Director for the Latin America Region, as Country Attache in Brazil, as the Resident Agent in Charge in Austin, and as a Special Agent in Dallas, Texas and Houston, Texas. He headed DEA's worldwide air operations from 1986–1995 as Special Agent in Charge of the Aviation Division. From 1995–1996, he was the Chief of Domestic Operations and chaired the Sensitive Activities Review Committee responsible for approving and managing potentially controversial or high-risk operations. From 1996–1998 he served as Chief of Operations, with the responsibility of overseeing all daily operations of DEA. In this capacity, he directed international investigations which resulted in the arrest of important figures in major Mexican and Colombian drug organizations. Marshall began serving as Deputy Administrator in December 1998 and became Acting Administrator in July 1999. Marshall was subsequently nominated by President William J. Clinton to serve as Administrator of Drug Enforcement, was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate, serving as Administrator until his retirement from government service in July 2001.


Leadership tenure

Under Marshall's leadership, the DEA developed enforcement programs against Mexican drug trafficking organizations at a time when they were becoming the predominant force in illegal drug trafficking in the United States. Marshall also established controls over the drugs ketamine and GHB (
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.) Under Marshall's leadership, the DEA disrupted financial and transportation bases of organized crime groups in targeted enforcement operations such as Operation Millennium, Operation Tarpit, Operation Impunity and Impunity II, Operation White Horse and Operation Journey. During Marshall's tenure, DEA also established demand-reduction programs and enforcement programs against ecstasy ( MDMA) which was being used at record levels by young people in the U.S. Operation Red Tide dismantled the largest international ecstasy trafficking organization in the world.


Sources


Donnie R. Marshall Confirmed by Senate as DEA Administrator
Drug Enforcement Administration, May 24, 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Donnie R. Year of birth missing (living people) People from Dallas Living people American civil servants Drug Enforcement Administration Administrators Stephen F. Austin State University alumni People from San Augustine, Texas