Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigns

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ALICIA A. CALDWELL ASSOCIATED PRESS

10 years ago

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson is questioned by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, as she testified before the House Oversight Committee in its examination of a security breach at the White House. The agency that protects the president and his family is under scrutiny after a man climbed over a fence, sprinted across the north lawn and dashed deep into the executive mansion before finally being subdued. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, Ralph Basham, a former Secret Service director, and Todd M. Keil, far right, a senior advisor with a private security firm, appear on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, before the House Oversight Committee as it examines details surrounding a security breach at the White House when a man climbed over a fence, sprinted across the north lawn and dash deep into the executive mansion before finally being subdued. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Oversight Committee member Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, leads the questioning of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson as the committee examines details surrounding a security breach at the White House when a man climbed over a fence, sprinted across the north lawn and dash deep into the executive mansion before finally being subdued, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A member of the Secret Service Uniformed Division looks out from the North Portico of the White House in Washington on Sept. 22, 2014. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson said Tuesday the front door to the White House now locks automatically in a security breach. Pierson told a House panel that the switch to automatic locks at the White House’s north door was made after an Army veteran jumped the fence on Sept. 19 and made his way into the interior of the building through two unlocked doors. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

A uniformed Secret Service police officer stands outside the White House in Washington on Sept. 22, 2014. The intruder who climbed a fence made it farther inside the White House than the Secret Service has publicly acknowledged, the Washington Post and New York Times newspapers reported Monday, Sept. 29. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

WASHINGTON — Secret Service Director Julia Pierson has resigned amid security lapses at the White House.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Wednesday that Pierson offered her resignation, and he accepted it.

The move came one day after her appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in a congressional hearing focused on recent security lapses at the White House.

Pierson had worked at the Secret Service for 30 years.