Monthly Meeting: Brendan Soden of the Secret Service

Brendan Soden is a native of Richmond, VA, and graduate of Benedictine HS and Belmont Abbey College. He was employed as a Senior Special Agent with the US Secret Service from 1972 to 2001, serving in part on the Vice-President's Protection Detail in Washington, DC, during the tenure of Walter Mondale and George Bush Sr. He has worked on counterfeit, check forgery, credit card fraud, intelligence cases, and protection of numerous Heads of State, Presidents and Vice-Presidents, the Kennedy and Rockefeller families and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Subsequent to this, Soden worked as a Special Agent with the Treasury IG for Tax Administration from 2001 to 2017, in Richmond, investigating IRS employees, threats against the IRS, and false claim and IRS impersonation cases. He is happily married to his wife, Gerri, and has two sons, Connor and Flannan, and a daughter, Shannon, all in government service, who've filled his retired life with three beautiful grandchildren.