 These signs of incompetence have been linked to the policies of the agency's current director, Kimberly Cheadle, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022. Last May, she claimed in a CBS interview that she would aim to attract diverse candidates and particularly wanted to increase the number of women at the Secret Service. Today, 24 percent of agents are female. She wants to raise that figure to 30 percent by the year 2030.