Hazel Witt
Served as bureau captain of the Cleveland Police Department’s Women’s Bureau from 1934-65. During her tenure, women entered the police academy for the first time.
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Rose Fortune
African-American-Canadian porter and informal law-enforcement officer in the 1800s
Dorothy Doan Henry
The first bureau chief of the Cleveland Police Department’s Women’s Bureau
Eunice Hunton Carter
One of New York’s first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States.
Elizabeth Sugrue
1700s Irish executioner
Wilma Neubecker
In 1965 Wilma Neubecker, the first woman to rise completely through the ranks of the Celveland Police Department and be promoted to captain, was placed in command of the Women’s Bureau.
Alpha Larsen
Chief of the Women’s Bureau of the Cleveland Police Department
Marie Remington Wing
American lawyer, feminist, and reformer
Violet Markle
The 1950 United States census recorded that she was a “policeman” with the US Park Police, working 48 hours a week. By at least 1963, she was a detective, a position she held until sometime after 1969. She is likely the first woman detective in USPP history.
Beatrice Ball
Newspaper accounts from 1941 describe her as “an expert pistol shot, a rodeo rider, a professional basketball player and coach, a physical director, a schoolma’m, a law school graduate, and a trained detective”—and all before she was 39 years old.