Women's Leadership Council Meet & Greet

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Hear from Linda Krieg, Executive Director of CASA CIS

"A Jagged Journey into the Non-Profit World"

Ms. Krieg will share her unusual path that led to her dream job as the Executive Director of CASA Children’s Intervention Services. She will share the beginning days of working in New York’s fashion industry, to becoming an FBI agent, to working in the non-profit world. Each step of the journey was a building block on the next step. Sometimes the steps don’t always make sense until you’re looking in the rearview mirror, but you’re where you need to be at each point in your life!

Ms. Krieg became the Executive Director of CASA CIS in September 2022. CASA’s mission is to advocate for the best interest of each abused and neglected child referred to it by the county juvenile court system. CASA CIS serves Prince William, Fauquier, Rappahannock, and Warren Counties.

Ms. Krieg spent 20 years as an agent with the FBI and held a variety of positions. Early in her career she worked on the Violent Crime squad in Chicago, investigating bank robberies, kidnappings, extortion, and Internet crimes against children.

Ms. Krieg was promoted to the role of a Supervisory Special Agent in FBI Headquarters Crimes Against Children Unit. There she served as the FBI liaison to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

Ms. Krieg was promoted and transferred to the Milwaukee FBI office. During her time as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge, she served as the on-scene commander investigating the disappearance of two young boys in Milwaukee. During this investigation she supervised the first deployment of the FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team.

Returning to Washington DC, Ms. Krieg finished her career as the Section Chief of the Internal Investigation Section which investigated internal employee misconduct.

In 2010, Ms. Krieg retired from the FBI and joined NCMEC to assume the role of Chief Operating Officer, overseeing its most critical work: its mission of bringing missing children home, stopping child sexual exploitation, and assisting law enforcement.

Since leaving NCMEC in 2015, Ms. Krieg relocated to the Milwaukee area and served as a Police and Fire Commissioner, was elected to the Ozaukee County Board of Supervisors, and was a founding board member of the Lakeshore Regional Child Advocacy Center.

In 2017 Ms. Krieg joined the board of Legal Options for Trafficked & Underserved Victims (LOTUS) Legal Clinic, a nonprofit providing pro-bono legal services to victims of human trafficking and sexual abuse.

Ms. Krieg received a Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Baruch College.

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