May, 1925
FBI Birmingham Division was closed.

May 19, 1930
FBI Birmingham Division was reopened to replace the FBI Atlanta Division. FBI Birmingham was responsible for a territory that included the entire State of Alabama, the Northern Judicial Districts of Georgia and Mississippi, and the Middle and Western Judicial Districts of Tennessee. The new Division was located in Room 201, Pioneer Building, Birmingham, Alabama.

June, 1932
Melvin H. Purvis, Jr. became SAC, FBI Birmingham. After serving in this position for approximately six months, Purvis went on to become SAC, FBI Chicago where he headed the investigation of the John Dillinger gang. On July 22, 1934, Chicago FBI Agents shot and killed Dillinger when he attempted to draw a gun outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.

March 22, 1935
The Bureau of Investigation was renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

March 11, 1947
FBI Birmingham Division was located in the Martin Building, 2308 Fourth Avenue North.

December, 1957
Clarence M. Kelly became SAC, FBI Birmingham. He served in this position for three years. Mr. Kelly succeeded J. Edgar Hoover as Director of the FBI from 1973-1977.

December 29, 1962
FBI Birmingham Division was relocated to Room 1400, 2121 Building, Eighth Avenue North, Birmingham

September 15, 1963
A bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killing four little girls, Denise McNair, age eleven, and Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Addie Mae Collins, each fourteen years of age. It was a crime that shocked the nation. The FBI Birmingham responded with an exhaustive investigation conducted by scores of Agents. Developing a prosecutable case at the time proved difficult and the initial investigation was closed, in 1972, only when it was believed that federal jurisdiction in the bombing had lapsed.

December 16, 1989
Federal Appeals Court Judge Robert S. Vance was killed by a mail bomb that exploded at his home in Mountain Brook.

June 1991
Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. was convicted after a jury trial in St. Paul, Minnesota, on seventy-one criminal counts including first degree murder in the death of Judge Vance.

August 30, 1991
Teams from the FBI, including the FBI Birmingham SWAT, and the Bureau of Prisons rescued 9 hostages held by 121 Cuban inmates at the Talladega, Alabama federal prison. None of the hostages were hurt.

September 11, 1991
Carrie Smith Lawson was kidnapped from her home in Jasper, Alabama. The suspect, Jerry Bland, committed suicide before she could be rescued or located. Another suspect, Karen McPherson pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge and was sentenced to life in prison.

February 5, 1992
FBI Birmingham authorized to form a Violent Crimes and Fugitive Task Force. The original participants along with FBI Agents included officers and deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, the Birmingham Police Department and the Bessemer Police Department.

July 9, 1997
SAC Joseph Lewis publically acknowledged that the FBI Birmingham had reopened the investigation of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

January 12, 1998
Lewis Dean Powell, a retired Mountain Brook High School vice principal, pleaded guilty to the illegal use of the internet to solicit sex from minors. Powell was sentenced to a five year prison term.

January 29, 1998
A bomb exploded at the New Woman All Women Health Care Clinic in Birmingham, killing Robert Sanderson, an off-duty Birmingham Police officer and critically injuring a nurse, Emily Lyons. Eric Robert Rudolph was charged in this bombing and remains a fugitive from justice.

October 13, 1998
Agents of the FBI Birmingham obtained a warrant for the arrest of Mario Giovanni Centobie for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. Centobie was a most dangerous fugitive who had shot and killed Officer Keith Turner, Moody, Alabama during a traffic stop and escaped the custody of law enforcement on three occasions. Centobie was captured for a final time by Federal Agents in Atlanta, Georgia on October 21, 1998. He was convicted of capital murder on May 14, 1999 and received the death penalty for his crime.

November, 1999
Robert Wilson Humber, a former Vice-President of the Citizens Bank of Fayette, Alabama, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and embezzlement charges. He was sentenced to a nine year prison term and ordered to pay $12 million in restitution to the bank

September/October, 2000
Jimmie Turquitt and his brother Isom Turquitt were convicted in separate trials for enacting a scheme in which they took out insurance policies on drug or alcohol addicted employees and then reaping thousands of dollars in benefits.

May 1, 2001
Thomas Blanton was convicted after a state jury trial for the murder of the four little girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. Blanton was sentenced to life in prison.

March 21, 2002
The last of five Boaz, Alabama police officer defendants, Timothy Hooks, is sentenced to 35 months in prison as the result of a civil rights investigation conducted by the Gadsden Resident Agency. The five officers were accused of racial profiling as they engaged in the targeting of Hispanic males for unlawful arrests and improper traffic stops.

May 22, 2002
Bobby Frank Cherry was convicted after a state jury trial for the murder of the four little girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. Cherry was sentenced to life in prison.

April 15, 2002
FBI Birmingham formally established the North Alabama Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). The mission of the JTTF is the prevention of another terrorist attack on United States citizens. Agencies participating with the FBI in the JTTF include the Bessemer, Hoover, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Huntsville and Birmingham Police Departments, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, CID and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administrator, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the U.S. Army Intelligence, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Immigration & Naturalization Service, and the United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of Alabama.

November 13, 2002
FBI Birmingham employees Special Agent William Fleming and Investigative Research Specialist Ben Herren were named Federal Employees of the Year for their work on the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing investigation.

March 18, 2003
FBI Birmingham executed search warrants at the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth located on Highway 280 in Birmingham. HealthSouth is the nation's largest provider of outpatient surgery, diagnostic imaging and rehabilitative healthcare services.

May, 2003
Eleven HealthSouth executives had entered guilty plea agreements, including all five of the chief financial officers in the company's history. The investigation is ongoing.

May 12, 2003
Adam Gilburne, former Vice-President, Just for Feet Inc., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Birmingham to securities fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The investigation is ongoing.