Director of
National Intelligence (DNI) Dan
Coats Friday named Shelby Pierson, the agency’s election security crisis
manager during the 2018 midterms, to the newly created Intelligence Community (IC) Election Threats Executive (ETE) position.

Saying the intelligence
community needed to build on its success in protecting the 2018 elections by
aligning its resources, Coats in a statement
called election security “an enduring challenge and a top priority for the IC.”

Pierson, who
will serve as the IC’s principal adviser on threats to elections and security
as well as coordinate election security initiatives across intelligence community,
will take the helm at the
newly created Election Executive and Leadership Board.