Law Enforcement Archives - Infinite Women

Anne Henry Call

FBI officer deployed to the Pentagon following 9/11; she later died from cancer as a result of exposure to toxins at the site.

Anna Sheerin Lowe became Murray County’s first female sheriff (and the second female sheriff in the state of Minnesota) when the Murray County Commissioners appointed her to fill her husband’s unexpired term in 1923.

Dr Joyce Vickery

Joyce Vickery was a forensic botanist who was most noted for her work on the kidnap and murder case of Graham Thorne in 1960.

Sylvia Hunsicker

One of the first female police officers in Seattle and suffragist leader

Annie Simons

Simons joined the US Park Police (USPP) on February 3, 1974. She was assigned to Anacostia Station, working from a cruiser rather than on foot patrol. She remembers being the only Black woman at the time.

Sylvia Mathis

FBI agent in the 1970s

Martha Dixon Martinez

FBI agent who died in the line of duty

Maureen Baginski

Maureen Baginski began her cryptologic career as a Russian Language instructor in 1979. During her tenure, Ms. Baginski held various operational management positions, including a tour as a Senior Operations Officer in the National Security Operations Center and the Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) National Intelligence Officer for Russia.

Constance Kopp

1910s deputy sheriff of Bergen County, New Jersey; later the Kopp sisters managed their own private-detective agency.

Edna Pearce

New Zealand kindergarten teacher and director, policewoman, and internment camp supervisor; first policewoman in the coutnry to make an arrest