(1971-1975)
A native of Strong City, Fred Howard attended both the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, and served eighteen years with the Kansas Highway Patrol as trooper and sergeant, 1953-1971. A graduate of the Northwestern University Law Enforcement Supervision and Command School, he was appointed KBI director by Attorney General Vern Miller, on January 11, 1971, and served in that capacity until 1975, when he retired to accept the position of chief of police with the Topeka Police Department. As police chief he was elected president of the Kansas Peace Officers' Association (1979). He retired from his latter position in 1981. Director Howard died January 14, 2011, in Lawrence, Kansas, at the age of 82.
