Advisory Board Members

Captain Lynnae Berg
Portland Police Bureau
Commander Berg has been with the Portland Police Bureau since 1981. She has a Masters in Public Administration and is a member of the Regional Drug Initiative Taskforce. She has extensive operational policing experience and currently heads the Portland Police Bureau's Investigative Branch.

Chief Eileen Bisson
Pierce County Sheriff's Office
As Chief of Operations, Major Bisson manages both the Field Force and Criminal Investigations Division. She has an MBA and a Master of Public Administration from City University.

Merrick Bobb, Esq.
Attorney Merrick Bobb's legal practice has concentrated on law enforcement. He served on the Christopher Commission investigation of the LAPD and the Kolts Commission investigation of the LA Sheriff's Department. He reviews and monitors the LA Sheriff's Dept. as Special Counsel to the LA Board of Supervisors.

Chief Fabienne Brooks
King County Sheriff's Office
With over 22 years experience with the King County Sheriff's Office, Chief Brooks oversees the Criminal Investigations Division, which includes a staff of over 100 sworn offices, and 50 non-sworn personnel. She is extensively involved with organizations in her community including the YWCA, the King County Sexual Assault Center, and the Black Law Enforcement Association of Washington.

Gale Buckner, Director
Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Gale Buckner was appointed the Director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council in August 2000. She is responsible for obtaining federal grant money and disseminating it to Georgia's criminal justice community. She has a Masters of Public Administration and was the President of the International Association of Women police from 1991 to 1994.

Deputy Superintendent Deborah Campbell
New York State Police
Deborah Campbell was promoted to Deputy Superintendent of Employee Relations in August of 2001, and is responsible for the implementation of the Equal Employment Opportunity laws. She is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and serves on the New York State Women's Advisory Counsel to the Governor.

Chief Tonia Carter-Means (Ret.)
Las Vegas Paiute Tribal Police Department
Chief Carter-Means was promoted to Chief of Police in 1998, and retired from the department in 2001. She has been honored with many awards including the Native American Police Woman of the Year Award, a Distinguished Service Medal and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Law Enforcement Appreciation Award. She was also the founder of the Paiute Tribal Recreation Center and the Indian Children at Risk Education Program.

Captain Lydia Castro
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Captain Castro has served with the LA County Sheriff's Department for over 20 years and was promoted to Captain in August 2000. She currently oversees all of the operations of the West Hollywood branch of the LACSD.

K.D. Codish, Director
New Haven Police Department
K.D. Codish is the Director of Training and Education for the New Haven Police Department and the Executive Director of the New Haven Police Academy. She has introduced a range of initiatives prohibiting sexual harassment and discrimination in the Department

Carol Daly, Undersheriff (Ret.)
California Board of Prison Terms
Carol Daly is a 30-year veteran of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. She is the past president of the Law Enforcement Chaplains of Sacramento and is currently active with the Special Olympics and California First Lady Sharon-Davis Hammers and High Heels project with Habitats for Humanity.

Commander Gwendolyn Elliot
Pittsburgh Police Bureau
Commander Elliot is an over 25-year veteran of the Pittsburgh Police Bureau. She is currently in charge of the unit dealing with sexual assault, missing persons, hate crimes, child and elder abuse and domestic violence.

Dr. Connie Fletcher
Loyola University
Dr. Fletcher is the author of several best-selling books on police: What Cops Know, Pure Cop, and Breaking and Entering: Women Cops Talk About Life in the Ultimate Men's Club. In compiling these oral histories, Dr. Fletcher has interviewed hundreds of women officers across the U.S. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at Loyola University.

Sheriff Margo Frasier
Travis County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Frasier is the first woman sheriff in Travis County, overseeing approximately 1,174 employees as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer and Chief Corrections Officer of Travis County. Prior to assuming this position, she worked as a private practice attorney for twelve years, specializing in representing and advising law enforcement agencies in criminal justice, civil rights and employment law matters. She has been awarded the Certificate of Recognition for Being Outstanding Role Model for 2000 by the Austin Area Urban League.

Commander Barbara Frost
Chicago Police Department
Lieutenant Frost is a fourth-generation Chicago Police Officer and is the co-author of The City in Crisis, a two-volume report detailing the Webster Commission's investigation into the Los Angeles civil unrest.

Len Golden-Price, Director of Administrative Services
El Paso Police Department
Len Golden-Price is currently the Director of Administrative Services, overseeing several major divisions, which provide financial, operational, technical, communication, records management and planning support to the El Paso Police Department. She is a Certified Law Enforcement Planner, TCLEOSE certified instructor and is in the process of obtaining her Advanced Law Enforcement Planner certification.

Ombudsman Laura Goodman-Brown
Minnesota State Office of Crime Victims
As Ombudsman for the Minnesota State Office of Crime Victims, Ms. Goodman-Brown serves as the State's top investigator of crime victims' rights violations and victim mistreatment. Her background includes eight years with the Minneapolis Police Department and three years as a Ramsey County Sheriff's Deputy.

Deputy Chief Charlene Graham
Pueblo Police Department
Deputy Chief Graham has a BA in Criminal Justice and a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice. She was a founding board member for the Rape Crisis Center of Pueblo and is currently in charge of the Investigative Services Bureau of the Pueblo Police Department.

Chief Beverly Harvard
Atlanta Police Department
Appointed to Police Chief in Atlanta, GA in 1994, by Mayor Bill Campbell, she has been responsible for the overall operation of the largest municipal law enforcement agency in Georgia, and is the first African-American woman in the nation to run a major police department. As well as her concepts for more community policing, Chief Harvard has established and expanded the juvenile section, domestic violence unit and gun task force within her department.

Debra Haugen, Records Manager
Portland Police Bureau
Ms. Haugen has been with the Portland Police Bureau for 25 years and has served as Police Records Manager for 8 years. She is involved in a variety of Bureau-wide issues including co-chairing The Taking Community Policing into the Next Century committee that was charged with creating the vision for the Bureau.

U.S. Marshal Phyllis Henry PhD (Ret.)
Phyllis Henry was appointed by President Clinton as U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Iowa February 1994. Prior to her appointment as Marshal, she served 10 years as a patrol officer and sergeant with the Des Moines, IA Police Department and an Administrator with Iowa State University's Department of Public Safety. She is co-founder of the Iowa Association of Women Police.

Captain Barbara Hopkins
Annapolis Police Department
Captain Barbara Hopkins was the first woman officer hired by the Annapolis Police Department. She has been an officer since 1973 and has worked in every division of the Department. She was formerly commander of the Special Operations Division and is now the commander of the Administrative Services Division.

Chief Vivian Howell Monroe (Ret.)
Dade County Public Schools Police Department
After starting as a Patrol Officer with Miami-Dade County Public Schools in 1973, Vivian Monroe was appointed the Chief of Police in 1997. Police departments throughout Florida often called upon her to serve as an assessor for candidates seeking promotion. She has also received many awards and citations for her outstanding achievements, leadership and work ethic.

Major Lynn Jones
Tulsa Police Department
Major Jones is a 28-year veteran of the Tulsa Police Department. As the first woman assigned to patrol, she opened the door for other women seeking careers in law enforcement. Ms Jones has more than 15 years management experience and currently services as a Uniform Division Commander.

Deputy Chief Sharon Jones (Ret.)
Oakland Police Department
Sharon Jones had a 20-year career with the Oakland Police Department, where she rose to the rank of Deputy Chief. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco.

Deputy Chief Beverly Lennen
Santa Fe Police Department
Lennen has been with the Santa Fe Police Department since joining as a patrol officer in 1984. She is currently a member of the District Court Drug Selection Panel and in 1998 was a member of the Domestic Violence Task Force.

Lillie Leonardi, Community Outreach Coordinator
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lillie Leonardi is a Community Outreach Coordinator for the F.B.I. where she is assigned as a liaison to all law enforcement agencies in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. She was previously the Chief of Police of Chatham College in Pittsburgh, PA, the Director of Security for Carlow College, and was also a police officer for the City of Arnold, PA.

Susan E. Martin, PhD
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Susan Martin has written extensively on gender and criminal justice issues. Since 1990 she has been working with the Prevention Research Branch of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism managing and coordinating prevention research and prior to that was a Project Directory for the Police Foundation.

Jenifer McKenna
A gender equity consultant specializing on issues of sex discrimination, sexual harassment and violence against women, with special expertise in gender issues in law enforcement, McKenna is a co-founder and former Managing Director of the California Women's Law Center. She was co-convenor of the Women's Advisory Council to the Los Angeles Police Department and a principal author of the Council's Blueprint for Implementing Gender Equity in the LAPD.

Chief Joseph McNamara, Ph.D (Ret.)
Stanford University
Dr. McNamara is a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He is recognized as an expert in criminal justice, police technology and management systems, crime prevention, and international drug control policies. Previously, he has been Chief of police for the city of San Jose, California, for fifteen years. As the Chief of San Jose, where he remained until retirement in 1991, it became the safest city in the country despite having the least police staffing per capita. The San Jose police became a model for innovation, community relations, and productivity.

Rosa Melendez, Regional Director
Community Relations Service, USDOJ
After a 17-year career with the Seattle Police Department, where she was the first woman of color promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, Rosa Melendez was appointed a U.S. Marshal by President Clinton. In 2000, she became the Regional Director of the Community Relations Service for DOJ in the Pacific Northwest.

Susan Miller, PhD
University of Delaware
Susan Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in gender and law enforcement.

Chief Charles Moose, PhD
Montgomery County Police Department
Chief Moose is an internationally recognized advocate and lecturer on the philosophy and implementation of community policing. He has been Montgomery County's Chief of Police since 1999. Prior to this appointment, he served as Chief of the Portland Police Bureau where he successfully guided the implementation of community policing in that city. Moose has a PhD in Urban Studies and Criminology.

Deputy Chief Terri Moses
Wichita Police Department
Deputy Chief Moses is the first woman to attain the rank of Deputy Chief in the Wichita Police Department. She currently supervises the Support Services Division, which includes oversight recruitment, hiring, training, and the Department's fiscal affairs.

Anne O'Dell, President
President, S.T.O.P. Domestic Violence, Inc.
Upon retiring from the San Diego Police Department after 20 years of service, Anne O'Dell established S.T.O.P. DV, and today is known as one of the country's leading experts on domestic violence. She pioneered the development of techniques to investigate domestic violence crimes that could be presented in court, even without the victim's testimony.

Andrea Sheridan Ordin, Esq.
Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP
A partner in the Los Angeles office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Ordin served as one of 10 Commissioners of the Independent Commission on the LAPD to investigate the use of excessive force following the beating of Rodney King. She was one of the first women to serve as President of the LA County Bar Association. She also served as the United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1977-1981.

Colonel Margaret Patten
Baltimore Police Department
Colonel Patten is the Chief of the Research and Development Bureau of the Baltimore Police Department. She established the first Domestic Violence Unit in the city and a Community Court Watch program. She was instrumental in establishing Domestic Violence Units throughout the Baltimore Police Department and 911 call coding and mandatory reporting for domestic violence incidents.

Roberta Reddick (Ret.)
In public service for 30 years, Reddick held the rank of Inspector of Police with the Compton Police Department. A charter Member of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, she was the first woman elected to their national office.

Deputy Chief Sandra Redding
California Highway Patrol
Deputy Chief Redding, a 24-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol, is their first female Deputy Chief, and the highest-ranking woman in the Department.

Chief Annette Sandberg (Ret.)
Washington Police Department
The first woman in the United States to head a state police agency, Chief Sandberg is also a member of the Washington and Alaska Bar Associations and has held positions in the Washington State Patrol Troopers Association.

Professor Kathryn Scarborough, PhD
Eastern Kentucky University
An author, researcher and speaker in Criminal Justice issues, Dr Scarborough is an Associate Professor at the Eastern Kentucky University. Her work focuses on gender and criminal justice issues.

Elsie Scott, PhD, Executive Director
Metropolitan Police Department
Dr. Scott is the Executive Director of the District of Columbia Police Training Standards Board of the Metropolitan Police Department. She previously served as a Deputy Commissioner of Training with the NYPD. For five years, she was the Executive Director of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE).

Eleanor Smeal, President
Feminist Majority Foundation
As a leading advocate for women's rights, Smeal is co-founder and President of the Feminist Majority Foundation. As President of her local chapter of the national Organization for women in Pittsburgh in the 1970's, she helped bring the first sex discrimination lawsuits against police departments, which resulted in landmark consent decrees requiring the hiring of more women.

Katherine Spillar, Executive Vice President
Feminist Majority Foundation
Katherine Spillar is the Executive Vice President for the Feminist Majority Foundation, and was a driving force behind the establishment of the National Center for Women & Policing. Spillar spearheaded the initiatives to gender-balance the LAPD from 1991-1994, and served as co-convenor of the Women's Advisory Council to the LA Police Commission from 1992-1993.

Steven Stanard, PhD
Stanard & Associates, Inc.
A nationally recognized expert in entry-level written and physical ability examinations, promotional examinations, fitness for duty assessments and recruitment, Dr Standard consults with more than 500 police departments across the U.S. and internationally.

Assistant Chief Geraldine Stewart
Houston Police Department
Assistant Chief Stewart was one of only a few female officers from the Houston Police Department to graduate from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. In May of 1998, she became the first female Assistant Chief over a patrol command in the department's history and manages the largest patrol force in Houston.

Chief Jan Strauss
Mesa Police Department Chief Strauss is the first female chief of the Mesa Police Department, and started as a patrol officer with the Department in 1978. She is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and former executive director of the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police. In 1999, Chief Strauss received the Alumni Achievement Award from Arizona State University.

Terri Swann, President
International Association of Women Police
Terri Swann is the current President of the International Association of Women Police. She is also a Supervisory Deputy US Marshal in the US Marshals Service.

Captain Cynthia Transue
Pennsylvania State Police
Captain Transue graduated from the FBI National Academy in 1992 and is a member of the Pennsylvania State University Alumni Advisory Board for the Administration of Justice, Crime, Law and Justice Program.

Roberta Webber, Assistant Chief (Ret.)
Portland Police Bureau
A 23-year veteran of the Portland Police Department, Webber was the Assistant Chief of the Portland Police Department's Operations Branch. Chief Webber was named one of Oregon's "10 Most Influential Women" in 1995.