Ronald Rowe, the deputy director of the United States Secret Service, has been appointed as the agency's acting director after an embattled Kimberly Cheatle announced her resignation Tuesday( 23 July 2024).

• Rowe was appointed in April of last year as deputy director, a role that granted him direct oversight of "daily investigative and protective operations," according to his Secret Service biography.
• He has experience leading the agency's engagements with Congress, DHS and other partners through his prior tenure as the assistant director for the Office of Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs.
• He was assigned to the Presidential Protective Detail from 2004 to 2008 and was deployed to New York City as part of the USSS response to 9/11.