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.
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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.
Gertrude E Wilson
Served with the United States Park Police for 22 years starting in the 1940s
Lydia Barton
Barton became the United States Park Police’s second policewoman on October 1, 1942.
Grace Judy
The United States Park Police’s fourth confirmed woman police officer, she retired from USPP in 1974 as a “senior officer.”
Veda Black
US National Parks Service policewoman who was the high scorer among women and runner-up overall during the 1946 USPP pistol-shooting contest.
Phoebe Couzins
The first femal U.S. Marshal