Julia Pierson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Pierson
President Barack Obama appointed Pierson as Director of the
Secret Service on March 26, 2013. Pierson is a native of Orlando,
Florida, and a graduate of the University of Central Florida.
Julia Pierson is an American law enforcement official. She
is currently the Director-designate of the United States Secret Service (USSS).
Pierson will become the first woman to head the agency, and will succeeded Mark
J. Sullivan, who has served as Director since May 31, 2006.
President Barack Obama has appointed Julia Pierson as the
director of the US Secret Service. She is the first woman director in the
organization's 148-year history. The appointment does not need Senate approval.
Julia Pierson, 53, will take over the US Secret Service,
charged with protecting the president and other dignitaries as well as
combating counterfeit currency.
Outgoing Secret Service director Mark Sullivan announced his
retirement last month.
Florida-born Pierson
began her career with the Secret Service in 1983 as a field agent in Miami, she served most
recently as the agency's chief of staff.
"Julia is
eminently qualified to lead the agency that not only safeguards Americans at
major events and secures our financial system, but also protects our leaders
and our first families," Obama said in a statement announcing Pierson's
appointment. "Over her 30 years of experience with the Secret Service,
Julia has consistently exemplified the spirit and dedication the men and women
of the service demonstrate every day."
Obama had come under
criticism for appointing comparatively few female officials in his cabinet
reshuffle following his re-election last November.
The Secret Service,
for its part, has been struggling with a prostitution scandal tied to an Obama
trip to Cartagena, Colombia, last year. Thirteen
employees brought women, including prostitutes, back to their hotel after a
night of partying in the resort city. The issue became public after one of them
argued over payment with a prostitute in a hotel hallway.
Outgoing boss Mark
Sullivan subsequently issued a new code of conduct, including a ban on
employees drinking within 10 hours of the start of a shift and on them bringing
women back to their hotel rooms.
msh/jm (AP, dpa, Reuters)
Date 27.03.2013
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