She joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985.[1] In February 2017, she was selected as Deputy Director of the CIA by President Donald Trump.[2][1][3][4] According to the CIA she is the "first female career CIA officer" to receive that appointment.[1] Meanwhile various news agencies reported she was the second woman.[5][6] Oliver Holmes, writing in The Guardian, pointed out that Avril Haines had been appointed by Barack Obama in 2013.[7]