Kathleen O'Toole
| Kathleen O'Toole | |
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O'Toole, 2014
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| Chief of Police for the Seattle Police Department | |
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Assumed office 23 June 2014 |
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Kathleen Horton May 9, 1954 Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| Spouse(s) | Dan O'Toole |
| Children | Meghan |
Kathleen M. (Horton) O'Toole (born May 9, 1954) is the Chief of Police for the Seattle Police Department (SPD), serving since June 23, 2014. She was the first female police commissioner of Boston, Massachusetts when appointed by the Mayor of Boston. She was appointed by mayor Thomas M. Menino in February 2004.
On 9 May 2006, O'Toole officially announced that she was leaving the Boston Police Department to move to Ireland. She was the first Chief Inspector of the Garda Inspectorate, set up to ensure that the resources available to the Garda Síochána are used so as to achieve and maintain the highest levels of efficiency and effectiveness in its operation and administration, as measured by reference to the best standards of comparable police services and report to Ireland's Minister for Justice and Equality on changes to improve efficiency in line with best international practice. She then returned to the U.S. and took her current position in Seattle.
She was born in 1954 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She moved to Marblehead, Massachusetts at age 13 and to Boston, Massachusetts at age 18. She resided in Boston from that time until she took a position in Ireland in 2006. She graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in 1976 and from New England School of Law with a JD in 1982.
Her career includes service as Lieutenant Colonel of Massachusetts State Police from 1992 to 1994; she was appointed to the cabinet position of Secretary, Executive Office of Public Safety in Massachusetts, by Governor William Weld in 1994 and served in this position until 1998. She then became a member of the Patten Commission headed by Lord Patten of Barnes which reformed policing in Northern Ireland and led to the formation of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. In May 2014, she was nominated by Mayor Ed Murray to become Seattle's first female chief of police.
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