Mary Beth Janke on Being a Woman in the ‘Man’s World’ of the Secret Service

Dec 30, 2020 | Press

Mary Beth Janke on Being a Woman in the ‘Man’s World’ of the Secret Service

Mary Beth Wilkas Janke has gotten used to being called a trailblazer. She is the only female to have ever officially protected a foreign president outside of the United States. She has decades of experience in international executive protection, beginning with her time as a Special Agent in the Washington Field Office in the male-dominated world of the United States Secret Service. Today, women make up just 11 percent of special agents in the secret service.