Background
Clancy grew up in the Philadelphia area.
Clancy grew up in the Philadelphia area.
He graduated from Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania, then attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he excelled on West Point"s football team
He is the 24th and current Director of the United States Secret Service. Clancy previously served as head of the agency’s presidential protection division until 2011, when he retired and became director of corporate security for Comcast. He transferred to Villanova University and graduated in the late 1970s.
After spending a few years as a history teacher at Father Judge High School in Philadelphia, he joined the Secret Service in Philadelphia in the 1980s.
Subsequently, he worked in the New York field office, directing a team of agents that conducted major investigations. He was in charge of security at national special events before joining the president’s protective detail.
Clancy was part of the Secret Service protective detail that jogged with President Bill Clinton in the early days of the Presidency of Bill Clinton. Clancy was appointed as acting director following the resignation of Julia Pierson on October 1, 2014, a position he held until his appointment as director on February 18, 2015 by President Barack Obama.
