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A native of St. John, Kansas, Larry Welch is the
second KBI director from Stafford County and the third director with
an FBI background. The tenth director of the KBI received
a bachelor’s degree and a law degree from the University of Kansas
prior to appointment in 1961 as a special agent with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. KBI Director Logan Sanford, a mentor, was a
reference in Larry Welch’s FBI application. FBI assignments followed
at Knoxville, Tennessee; Washington, D.C.; Miami, Florida; West Palm
Beach, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; San Antonio, Texas; McAllen,
Texas; Kansas City and Wichita. At Wichita he supervised FBI
operations in Kansas. Upon retirement from the FBI in 1986, Welch
became associate director at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training
Center. Promoted to director of that facility in 1989, he resigned in
July, 1994, to accept appointment by Attorney General Robert Stephan
as director of the KBI. He was reappointed KBI director by Attorney
General Carla Stovall in 1995 and by Attorney General Phill Kline in
2003. Director Welch retired from the KBI in May, 2007. |
