Cheatle joined the
United States Secret Service in 1995.She was involved in the evacuation of
Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney during the
September 11 attacksand served on
Joe Biden's protective detail during the
Obama administration, when she was assigned to the Vice Presidential Protective Division. In 2017 and 2018, she served as deputy assistant director. She served as special-agent-in-charge in the
Grand Rapids, Michigan, office. She became the first woman to serve as assistant director of Protective Operations, a unit tasked with protection of the
President of the United States and
dignitaries.
From 2019 to 2022, Cheatle served as senior director of
global security at
PepsiCo.
In 2021, President
Joe Biden awarded Cheatle a
Presidential Rank Award for exceptional performance. In August 2022, President Biden announced the appointment of Cheatle as director of the
United States Secret Service, and she assumed office on September 17, 2022. Cheatle took over the Secret Service following "a turbulent couple of months in which the agency best known for protecting presidents has faced controversies related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol."
(Seems at least fairly qualified? I’m not a security expert but I’m sure all of you guys are)