DOJ CIO announces departure from agency
Then-Department of Justice CIO Melinda Rogers speaks at an ATARC Zero Trust Summit. Rogers announced that May 30 was her last day working for the agency. Crouse Powell/ATARC
Melinda Rogers said May 30 was her last day with the Department of Justice.
The Justice Department’s chief information officer has left the agency after almost five years overseeing its IT efforts.
Melinda Rogers announced her departure in a Friday LinkedIn post, writing that her exit comes as her children prepare to head for college — a milestone that, she said, also marks “a shift enabling me to do something different.”
“It has been a privilege serving my country through my work here at DOJ, and I sincerely appreciate all the partnerships and friendships along the way,” Rogers added. “I look forward to staying connected and starting on a new milestone.”
Rogers first joined DOJ in 2010 and served as the agency’s deputy CIO and chief information security officer before being named CIO in September 2020.
As the agency’s IT lead, Rogers said she oversaw a staff of 1,000 employees and contractors and was responsible for providing services to roughly 165,000 users across the agency’s operations.
Rogers also said she was responsible for enforcing DOJ’s implementation of former President Joe Biden’s May 2021 executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity, including providing “enhanced information security tools across mission critical systems within a complex and federated architectural environment, focusing on automating incident response, tightening identity and access management, and continuing adoption of the zero-trust framework.”
It is not clear at this time who will serve as DOJ’s acting CIO. The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.