President-elect Joe Biden selected Avril Haines as his director of national intelligence on Monday. Haines, 51, worked with Biden under President Barack Obama and led the Biden transition’s national security and foreign policy team. She served as the White House deputy national security adviser and deputy director of the CIA. She was the first woman to hold both positions.
And now, if confirmed, she will become the first woman to head national intelligence.
In that role, she would oversee the National Intelligence Program, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council and advise the president.
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