Steve Neavling

Michael Steinbach was supposed to be the temporary head of the FBI in Miami while the bureau searched for a permanent special agent in charge.

But the 46-year-old who has fought violent crime and terrorism impressed Washington D.C. so much that he received the permanent job, the Miami Herald reports.

“I never pursued it,” Steinbach, 46, who studied aerospace engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, told the Herald.

Steinbach joined the FBI in 1995 and eventually held the top job at the bureau’s Jacksonville office, the Herald wrote.