A trailblazing once-Catholic nun who then became one of the first women sworn in as an FBI special agent died last week at the age of 83. Joanne Pierce Misko — who earned the iconic nickname “Nun with ...

After a long day of teaching at Mount Mercy Academy, a Catholic school in Buffalo, Joanne Pierce Misko would return to her home at the Sisters of Mercy convent, where she and the other nuns liked to ...

The News recently reprinted a New York Times obituary of Joanne Pierce Misko. This native of Western New York was one of the first two women special agents in the FBI. The Times obituary mentioned ...

Joanne Pierce Misko, the nun who left the order to become one of the first-ever female FBI agents, has died at 83. Pierce Misko, along with Marine Corps veteran Susan Roley Malone, were known in the ...