1. Ronald Kenneth "Ron" Noble was born on September 24,1956 and is an American law enforcement officer who served as the secretary-general of the International Criminal Police Organization from 2000 to 2014.
13 Facts About Ronald Noble
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Ronald Noble was the organization's first American and youngest secretary-general at the time of his appointment.
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Ronald Noble was born in Fort Dix, a United States Army post south-east of Trenton, New Jersey, to an African-American father and a German mother.
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Ronald Noble was raised in nearby Jobstown, where his father worked as a janitor after serving as a master sergeant in the army.
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Ronald Noble attended Northern Burlington County Regional High School before graduating from the University of New Hampshire in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration.
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Ronald Noble then moved to the Department of Justice in Washington, DC in 1988 to work as a deputy assistant Attorney General and chief of staff for Dennis, who had been appointed the assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division.
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In 1993, Ronald Noble was appointed the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, being placed in charge of the Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the Customs Service Office of Enforcement, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
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Ronald Noble was head of the department's "Waco Administrative Review Team", which produced a report on the ATF's actions against the Branch Davidians, leading to the Waco siege.
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In 1996, Ronald Noble returned to New York University School of Law to continue working as a tenured professor.
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In 1998, with the support of Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI director Louis Freeh, Ronald Noble applied to become the secretary-general of Interpol and succeed incumbent Raymond Kendall.
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On November 3,2000, at the age of 44, Ronald Noble was elected to the position, becoming the first non-European, the first non-white person, the first American and the youngest secretary-general in the organization's history.
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Ronald Noble was nominated for the post by the organization's Executive Committee the previous year, and on September 20,2005, during Interpol's 74th General Assembly in Berlin, he was re-elected for a second five-year term.
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On November 9,2010, Ronald Noble was re-elected for a third term as secretary-general during the organization's 79th General Assembly in Doha, Qatar.