Our Next Speaker

Brendan Soden, Retired Secret Service

Soden was employed as a Senior Special Agent with the US Secret Service from April 1972 to July 2001. Worked in New York; on the Vice-President's Protection Detail in Washington, DC, during the tenure of Walter Mondale and George Bush, Sr.; and in Richmond, VA. He has worked on 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, worked as a Special Agent with the Treasurery IG for Tax Administration from July 2001 to January 2017, in Richmond, investigating IRS employees; threats against the IRS; and false claim and IRS impersonation cases. Brendan Soden is happily married to his wife, Gerri, and has two sons and a daughter, all in government service, who have filled his retired life with three beautiful grandchildren.