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March 27, 2013

Obama Appoints 1st Female Head of Secret Service 
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President Obama has appointed Julia Pierson as the first woman ever to
lead the Secret Service, an agency charged with protecting the
president, his family and other officials. Pierson is a longtime Secret
Service agent who previously served as a police officer in Orlando,
Florida. She takes over from Mark Sullivan, whose tenure was marked by
scandal after it was revealed agents had hired sex workers during a
presidential trip to Colombia.

 

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