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Julia Ann Pierson (born July 21, [citation needed] 1959) [1] [2] is an American former law enforcement official. On March 27, 2013, President Barack Obama appointed her as the 23rd Director of the United States Secret Service. [3] Pierson was the first female director of the agency.
Julia Pierson is an American law-enforcement professional who became the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. Secret Service before serving as the 23rd—and first female—director of that agency in 2013–14. As a teenager in Orlando, Florida, Pierson worked at the Disney World theme park—as a parking-lot.
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the White House perimeter breach during a hearing on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — Julia Pierson resigned under pressure as director of the Secret Service on Wednesday after failing to quell a bipartisan political furor over repeated breaches of White...
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday appointed Julia A. Pierson, a longtime Secret Service agent, as the first woman to head the agency best known for protecting the president, vice...
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson offered her resignation Wednesday after several security breaches affecting the White House and President Obama became public, Department of Homeland...
UPDATED at 5:30 p.m. EDT: WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service Director Julia Pierson abruptly resigned Wednesday in the face of multiple revelations of security breaches, bumbling in her agency...
Julia Pierson offered her resignation to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday. A day earlier, she faced angry questions in Congress about a major breach of White...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service Director Julia Pierson abruptly resigned Wednesday in the face of multiple revelations of security breaches, bumbling in her agency and rapidly eroding confidence that the president and his family were being kept safe.
Julia Pierson, the first female director of the Secret Service, resigned Wednesday in the aftermath of a fence-jumper gaining access to the White House on September 19 and a subsequent...