Member Milton "Buddy" E. Nix, Jr.

Milton E. Nix, Jr. | Robert E. Keller | L. Gale Buckner | Garland R. Hunt, Esq. | James E. Donald

Milton E. "Buddy"  Nix, Jr., appointed by Governor Roy Barnes in June 2002 to fill an interim term, and was then appointed to a full seven year term in December 2002, during the only bipartisan swearing in ceremony in Board history. He served as Board Chairman from 2002 to 2006. Nix a graduate of the University of Georgia, began his law-enforcement career in 1964 with the U.S. Air Force, serving as captain in the U.S. and Vietnam.  He served  from 1964 to 1970, completing a 1 year tour of duty in Vietnam. Following his military service, Mr. Nix began a 23 year career with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) as a Special Agent in Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee and FBI Headquarters. He completed his FBI career in 1993 in Houston, Texas where he supervised a squad responsible for the international terrorism, general property and bank robbery investigations. In 1993, he was appointed as Director or the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) by   Governor Zell Miller. During his tenure at GBI, Nix led a major expansion of the GBI State Crime Lab system and creation of the Georgia DNA database of convicted felons. Mr. Nix is a member of Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, Society of Former Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agents, International Association of Chiefs of Police, and Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc., where he was named Chief of the Year in 1998. He is also a 1999 graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute.