Omar R. Lopez is an American special agent and attorney serving as the sixth civilian director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) since 2019.

[1] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with honors from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

[2] He also holds a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School and practiced formerly in California and Washington, D.C.[2] Lopez was commissioned in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps as a judge-advocate in 1995.

[2] In 2003, Lopez began his career with Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) as a special agent, assigned to the Port Hueneme Resident Agency in California.

[3] On June 4, 2019, Lopez was sworn in by the United States secretary of the Navy, Richard V. Spencer, as the sixth civilian director of NCIS.