Biography

Mr. Petrowski is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Strategic Studies at Tarleton State University. Mr. Petrowski joined Tarleton after 23 years of diverse service with the FBI. His criminal investigative experience in the FBI includes assignments to a multi-agency street gang task force and over 10 years in the SWAT program. His Bureau national security experience includes supervising the North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force for 6 years and being detailed to the CIA at Langley, VA for a tour. He was also in the FBI’s legal program teaching law at the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA and serving as the Chief Division Counsel in Dallas. He served two tours in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 supervising counterterrorism matters and the war crimes investigation of the Saddam Hussein regime. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University, the University of Virginia and the University of Texas – Dallas. Prior to the FBI, Mr. Petrowski served as a U.S. Army Special Forces officer, as both an Operator and as a JAG Officer with deployments to Africa, the Middle East, Southwest Asia, Central America, and Haiti. He received a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University and a J.D. from the New England School of Law.