has been elected as the head of police at Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, in Ohio, three-and-a-half years after being told her ‘career was over’.Her victory means she has become not only the highest-ranking LGBT person in the force’s history, Charmaine is also the first woman to hold the role as sheriff in Hamilton County.
The landmark moment comes after the former sheriff, Jim Neil, fired Charmaine in May 2017, putting an end to her 33-year career as the chief of police.Neil insisted he fired Charmaine for creating a ‘hostile working environment’, Charmaine said, but in a lawsuit she has filed against the police department she claims one of the reasons she was sacked was because she is ‘openly gay’.In her first full interview Charmaine,.