Omaha parishioner to lead National Review Board

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has appointed James Bogner of Omaha as the next chair of the National Review Board (NRB). Bogner, who joined the NRB in 2020, succeeds Suzanne Healy, who concluded her term as chair at the conclusion of the bishops’ June 2024 Plenary Assembly. Healy joined the NRB in 2017 and served the four-year term for chair from 2020-24.
 
The National Review Board advises the U.S. bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People and works closely with the USCCB’s Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection in accordance with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, which the bishops adopted in 2002.
 
Archbishop Broglio thanked Healy for her leadership and service, and welcomed Bogner, “It is propitious to acknowledge the excellent and collaborative manner that has characterized the work of the NRB and the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People. We have witnessed great strides and challenges in the continued and ongoing efforts for the Catholic Church in the United States to strengthen and renew her efforts for the protection of young people and the healing of victims. I thank Mrs. Healy for her longtime service on this most crucial issue, and I look forward working with the NRB under the leadership of Mr. Bogner to continuing that process in the future.” 
 Bogner is a retired Senior Executive Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with over 35 years of law enforcement experience both at the municipal and federal levels. During his FBI career, he served as the Chief of the FBI’s Internal Affairs/Adjudication and Inspection Units.

He was the Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge in Oklahoma City after the 1995 domestic terrorist attack on the federal building. He served in the Senior Executive Service in Washington, D.C., and later as Special Agent-in-Charge of FBI offices in the midwest over Nebraska and Iowa. These positions included investigations, developing partnerships, addressing national personnel and misconduct policies and issues, conducting national inspections and internal audits, risk analysis, strategic planning, and high-profile media matters.

He later served as the first Assistant Federal Security Director developing procedures and protocols for airport security for law enforcement in Nebraska and Iowa after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. He has served on several local, state and national boards and councils.
 
His graduate work has included studies in public policy analysis. He is a graduate of the FBI’s National Executive Institute and has also served as a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Nebraska-Omaha in the Criminal Justice program.
 
As a life-long Catholic, Bogner has served his parish in Omaha as president of the parish council and leading the parish in data and survey analysis and strategic planning. He was a founding co-leader in his parish’s “Catholics Returning Home” program for fallen away Catholics, and in developing evangelization initiatives in his parish. He is an active member of the Knights of Columbus. 
 
Bogner is the chair of the Archdiocese of Omaha’s Advisory Review Board and the Ministerial Misconduct Board. He is also the chair of the Missionary Society of St. Columban’s United States Review Board. 
 
Details regarding the National Review Board may be found at: http://www.usccb.org/about/child-and-youth-protection/the-national-review-board.cfm.