DOJ elevates deputy CIO to top IT role

Nikki Collier had been serving as the acting CIO since Melinda Rogers left the role last year, according to the CIO Council’s website.

The Department of Justice has a new permanent chief information officer after the agency’s long-serving IT lead departed in the middle of last year. 

Justice’s leadership page for its Office of the Chief Information Officer now lists Nikki Collier as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Information Resources Management and CIO. Collier has served as DOJ’s deputy CIO since January 2025, and was chief of staff to the Assistant Attorney General of Administration from October 2022 through February 2025.

The agency has been without a permanent CIO since Melinda Rogers left the role at the end of May 2025. Rogers first joined DOJ in 2010 and served as the agency’s deputy CIO and chief information security officer before being named CIO in ...