Jack Fickler is the director of the FBI and a recurring character on Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior.
Background[]
Little is revealed about Fickler's history, other than he became an FBI agent in the Behavioral Analysis Unit and that he is a long time friend of Sam Cooper. Eventually in his career, Fickler rose through the ranks and became the Director of the agency, displaying a great level of flexibility with standard procedures, creating a number of teams known as Red Cells, one of which led by Cooper that answers directly to him outside of usual bureaucracy.
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior[]
Fickler first appears in the show's pilot episode "Two of a Kind", where he promotes Simms after the Red Cell team closes a case in Cleveland, Ohio, during which Simms confronted the unsub in a tense situation that proved to Fickler that he was fit to join the FBI, despite his history.
In "Here is the Fire", Fickler receives word of a school bombing during a meeting and exits to coordinate the response. He insists on assigning the case to Cooper and his team, despite the protests of his assistant due to the Red Cell's unconventional methods and other agents already gathered to handle the case. However, Fickler is firm and orders the case be given to Cooper's unit, regardless of their reputation.
In the episode "The Time is Now", it is revealed that Fickler was once a BAU Team Leader, and becomes the central character when an unsub, Veronica Day, that he profiled a decade ago is granted a new trial. His profile is put into question and he asks Cooper to help him and to testify in open court. In a surprising twist, Day turns out to actually be innocent of one of the murders she was accused of, because the original ADA did not release exculpatory evidence to the defense.
Criminal Minds: Evolution[]
Nothing is known about what has happened to him since, though by the events of "Gold Star", he had been replaced as FBI Director by Ray Madison.