'The buck stops with me.

I am the director of the Secret Service.

' Ms.

Cheatle served in the Secret Service for 27 years.

She left in 2021 for a job as a security executive at PepsiCo before President Biden asked her to return in 2022 to head the agency with a workforce of 7,800 special agents, uniformed officers, and other staff.

She took over amid a controversy over missing text messages from around the time thousands of Mr.

Trump's supporters, following his 2020 election loss to Mr.

Biden.

During her time in the agency, Ms.

Cheatle was the first woman to be named assistant director of protective operations, the division that provides protection to the president and other dignitaries, where she oversaw a $133.

5 million budget.

She is the second woman to lead the agency.

When President Biden announced Ms.

Cheatle's appointment, he said she had served on his detail when he was Vice President and he and his wife 'came to trust her judgment and counsel.

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