WASHINGTON, D.C. — July 30 marks the 12th annual National Whistleblower Day, a year following Summit Point resident Teresa Tumblin’s move to submit her nearly decade-long fight for justice with an appeal through the Merit System Protection Board.

The board oversees federal labor management relations, and in December 2022, the Biden administration passed a law that would allow FBI whistleblowers to appeal their cases through that board.

Tumblin was the first FBI whistleblower to utilize the mechanism for appeal and continues to wait for justice in her case.

Tumblin served in the National Name Check program. To gain that position, Tumblin moved up in rank over time, receiving numerous awards for her work. Tumblin was well on her way to further promotion, having been selected from a pool of applicants to service in a quality assurance position, said a release from Tully Rinckey, PLLC, the firm representing Tumblin.

The upward movement stalled when Tumblin discovered and reported FBI discrepancies and unethical behavior with the team leader and supervisor and on up the chain of command to the director of her division. Her allegations led to an inspection of her unit and her identification as a whistleblower.

“Basically, as part of her job, Teresa was responsible for what is the beginning of a background investigation,” Dan Meyer, a partner with Tully Rinckey PLLC’s Washington, D.C., office and Tumblin’s attorney in her whistleblower case, has said.

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