Ms. Nadia Summers
Nadia Summers has been a federal government employee for over 20 years. She was named deputy director for Internal Affairs (IA) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service in 2022.
As IA deputy director, Summers oversees the initiation of inquiries and investigations into misconduct, fraud, waste and abuse of agency resources. She conducts assessments of sensitive and complex problems and issues affecting FSIS as an organization. Summers also coordinates with USDA’s Office of Inspector General, Office of General Counsel and individual program areas to report final case dispositions. These duties directly support FSIS’ Strategic Goals – 1: Prevent Foodborne Illness and Protect Public Health; 2: Transform Inspection Strategies, Policies, and Scientific Approaches to Improve Public Health; and 3: Achieve Operational Excellence.
Summers joined FSIS in 2019 as a misconduct investigator where she planned, executed and documented administrative investigations into allegations of personnel misconduct, waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement. In this capacity, she completed several complex and sensitive investigation activities ensuring sufficiency, timeliness and defensibility for each case.
Summers began her career in public service at the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. There she rose through the ranks from an immigration services officer adjudicating immigration benefit applications, to supervising a team of immigration officers and ultimately serving as a senior immigration services officer responsible for leading specialized and highly sensitive immigration cases, identifying fraud trends, and investigating immigration benefit fraud and national security threats.
Summers attended Troy University in Alabama and received a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice.