North Dakota's lone female police chief retiring, says it's been a great ride Friday, December 6, 2019
KFGO News
Jeanette Persons is calling it quits. The Lisbon police chief, the state's only female police chief, is retiring.
She joined the police department in 1997 and became chief in 2005. She says she was never treated differently because she was a woman and says it's been a great ride.
Persons was 49 when she decided to become a law officer. Attending the police training academy in Bismarck, she was, on average, 25-years older than the other candidates in the class who affectionately called her "mom."