Mark J. Sullivan

Mark J. Sullivan is the current Director of the United States Secret Service. Sullivan succeeded W. Ralph Basham and was sworn in as the 22nd Director of the Secret Service on May 31, 2006. Born to Francis and Clare Sullivan in Arlington, Massachusetts, Sullivan, is the oldest of six children. He attended Arlington Catholic High School and received his B.A. in criminal justice from Saint Anselm College in 1977. He is married to the former Laurie Bell and has three daughters. Sullivan began his Secret Service career as a special agent assigned to the Detroit Field Office in 1983. In 1990, Sullivan began working at the Fraud Division in Washington, D.C. One year later, in 1991, Sullivan was assigned to the Presidential Protective...