Ms. Catherine Sanz

.Secretary Catherine Sanz, DHS-ICE

Left to right, Chief Lanier, WIFLE Executive Director Margaret Moore, WIFLE President Catherine Sanz, Chief Bowie, MD, Police Katherine Perez and WIFLE Deputy Executive Director Monica Rocchio.

In this issue, I wanted to feature the biographies below of our other 2006 WIFLE officers - Vice President Catherine Sanz, Secretary Karen Ratke Jones, and Treasurer Rebekah Salazar.

President Stephanie Davis, Air Force, OSI; Vice President Catherine Sanz, Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Secretary Karen Ratke, Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Treasurer Rebekah Salazar, U.S. Border Patrol
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WIFLE Vice President Catherine Sanz welcomed guests and presided over the evening's events, which included Presentation of Colors by the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division Ceremonial Honor Guard; a keynote address by the Honorable Karen P. Tandy, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (photo at right); dinner served by the Capitol Hilton staff; and, presentation of the 2006 awards and scholarships.

Catherine SanzVice PresidentImmigration and Customs Enforcement
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Catherine Sanz has 29 years of law enforcement service.She is a Special Agent (SA) and is the Chief of the Asset Forfeiture Unit, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Ms. Sanz began her law enforcement career in 1977 as a police officer with the Federal Protective Service in Boston, Massachusetts.From there she moved to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, where she taught the Basic Police Officer Training Program to agents and police officers.

Ms. Sanz became a SA with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Atlanta, Georgia, working long-term narcotics and money laundering investigations for the next two and a half years.Joining the U. S. Customs Service (USCS), Ms. Sanz was assigned to the Vice President's Joint Task Force focusing on narcotics trafficking in South Florida, then worked her way up to the position of supervisor in charge of managing investigations for the Customs Service's Office of Investigations.In 1998 Ms. Sanz became the USCS National Program Manager for the Asset Removal and Identification Group Program and later promoted to Assistant Director for Asset Forfeiture.In 2002, she was again promoted and transferred on temporary assignment to the Department of Treasury to serve as the Assistant Director of the Executive Office of Asset Forfeiture.In March 2003, all U.S. Customs Agents were transferred to the newly formed ICE where Ms. Sanz serves as the Chief, Asset Forfeiture while still carrying out her temporary assignment with the Department of Treasury.

Ms. Sanz holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Northeaster University and an M.A. in Forensic Psychology from Marymount University.She is married with no children.

By Catherine Sanz, Director, Mission Support, Office of Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Annette Paxson . Catherine Sanz . Stephanie Davis

Catherine W. Sanz (2007)U.S. Department of Homeland Security