Stepping down: Julia Pierson, the first female director of the Secret Service, is out. She resigned yesterday, not able to weather the aftermath of a fence-jumper gaining access to the White House last month and a poor performance this week at a congressional inquiry that uncovered other security lapses. High-ranking Democrats and Republicans had called for her to step down. Pierson was named the director of the Secret Service in March 2013, tapped by President Obama to change the culture of an agency that was then marred by a Colombian prostitution scandal. She joined the Secret Service in 1983.
source: cnn.com
