1st woman to serve as Montgomery patrol officer retires

 

August 4, 2019



MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The first woman to serve as a female patrol officer in Alabama's capital city has retired.

The Montgomery Advertiser reports that Cindy Reynolds has retired at age 65.

Reynolds was one of three women who filed a discrimination lawsuit in 1975, contesting the Montgomery Police Department's hiring practices.

In January 1976, a judge agreed the department could not discriminate against women seeking employment as patrol officers purely because of their gender, leading to Reynolds being hired.

She spent 20 years with Montgomery police. She later went to the Montgomery...



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