Evolving Responses to Mass Violence and Terrorism

Kathryn Truman, Assistant Director, FBI Victim Services Division (VSD), retired

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 7 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Join us for the third event in the 2022-2023 Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc. Legacy Award Speaker Series with Kathryn Truman, Assistant Director, FBI Victim Services Division (retired). This event will take place on Zoom on  

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Kathryn Turman ran the Victim Witness Assistance Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia in the 1990’s. She joined the FBI in 2002 and was the assistant director of the FBI’s Victim Services Division (VSD) when she retired in 2020. Arguably the Bureau’s most consistently called-upon contributor, she presided over the FBI’s victim-centered responses to every major case since 9/11, including the Boston Marathon bombings, multiple mass-casualty shootings, international kidnappings and murders, and scores of federal crimes. Under her leadership, the division grew from a handful of well-intentioned staff to a world-renowned corps of more than 300 specially trained personnel. During the 2000 trial of the two suspects in the bombing of Pan Am 103, it was Turman’s charge to make sure the families of the bombing’s American victims were well-served. Turman arranged for travel for family members and secured closed-circuit viewing in the U.S., which at the time was unprecedented. Robert S. Mueller, FBI Director from 2001-2013, said of Turman, “The victim assistance plan she developed for the Lockerbie prosecution became the backbone of the FBI’s approach to supporting victims of terrorism and federal crime.”