September 12th, 2009 10:07 AM

Alice Stebbins Wells, a graduate theology student and a social worker, joined the Los Angeles Police Department as the nation's first policewoman on September 12, 1910. She was allowed to design her own uniform and was active in promoting the need for policewomen in other forces. As a result of her efforts, seventeen departments in American were employing policewomen by 1916.

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