Obama Appoints Julia Pierson as First Woman Secret Service Director

Veteran Secret Service agent, Julia Pierson, Tuesday, was been appointed by President Barack Obama as the first woman to become Director of the agency. U.S. officials told Reuters that Pierson was been Chief of Staff at the Secret Service, which in 2012 became embroiled in a scandal involving agents taking prostitutes to their hotel rooms. A native of Florida, Pierson began her career with the Secret Service as a special agent with the Miami Field Office in 1983, and will replace Mark Sullivan who retired as Secret Service Director