Marshall, Donnie

[Page 492]On June 19, 2000, Donnie Marshall was officially sworn in as the seventh Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) administrator, and he remained in this position until his retirement on June 30, 2001. A 30-year veteran of the DEA, Marshall became the first special agent ever to become administrator of the agency. During his tenure, numerous international drug-trafficking and money laundering organizations were dismantled, while more than $90 million in currency and assets, 45,000 kilograms of cocaine, and 40,000 pounds of marijuana were seized and more than 4,100 arrests were made as a result of major agency operations.

Marshall began his law enforcement career as a special agent with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, a predecessor of the DEA, in 1969. Various early DEA assignments ...