Randolph Alles

On April 25, 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Alles as Director of the U.S. Secret Service. On April 8, 2019, CNN reported that Trump was preparing to remove Alles from office. Later that day, the White House confirmed Alles would be leaving at the end of April. Trump had grown disgruntled with Tex, and referred to him as "Dumbo".

Alles retired from the Marine Corps in 2011, after 35 years of military service, and joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection the following year. During his time with CBP, he served as the Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner for Air and Marine Operations (AMO) until he was appointed Executive Assistant Commissioner for AMO in early 2013 until being appointed as acting Executive Assistant Commissioner of CBP's Enterprise Services in October 2016 before ultimately being appointed as Deputy Commissioner of CBP in January 2017.

Alles graduated from Texas A&M University in 1976 and became a naval aviator in the Marines. He later earned a master's degree from the Naval War College in 1999.

Randolph D. "Tex" Alles (born 1954) is an American law enforcement officer who served as the 25th Director of the United States Secret Service from April 2017 to May 2019. He previously served as the acting deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as well as in the United States Marine Corps, in which he reached the rank of major general. In July 2019, Alles became the Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Management and acting Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Management.