Andrew Bailey

Andrew Bailey was appointed co-deputy director of the FBI in September 2025.

Mr. Bailey grew up in Missouri and attended the University of Missouri on an Army ROTC scholarship. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he volunteered for a combat arms branch of service then volunteered to deploy to Iraq, where he served as an armored cavalry scout platoon leader from 2005 to 2006. Upon his return to the United States, his unit moved, refit, and trained for a subsequent fifteen-month deployment to Iraq from 2007 to 2009.

After returning home, Mr. Bailey transitioned out of the Army and was employed as an armed guard at a courthouse in the city of St. Louis before returning to the University of Missouri School of Law on the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill.

Mr. Bailey began his legal career as a special prosecutor in the Missouri Attorney General's Office and then as an assistant prosecuting attorney in Warren County, Missouri. He then joined the Missouri Department of Corrections as general counsel and later served Missouri Governor Mike Parson as his general counsel. Governor Parson then appointed him as Missouri's 44th attorney general, where he served for two years prior to winning election to a full term.