The highest-ranking out member of the San Francisco Police Department has been nominated as the next chief of police for the Lincoln Police Department in Nebraska, where, if confirmed, she will be the first female and first out LGBTQ chief.
Police Commander Teresa Ewins, a lesbian who is a 26-year veteran of SFPD, was the first woman to head the Tenderloin police station, as the Bay Area Reporter noted in a 2015 article when she was named its captain.
Ewins, 55, was one of four finalists for the Nebraska position, and was endorsed by the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper and the Lincoln Police Union, according to an SFPD news release.