Regina McDonald, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetRegina McDonald
Pittsburgh Police Chief
Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1950
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession: police officer
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Regina McDonald
- Regina McDonald is a longtime Pittsburgh Police leader, who was named acting Pittsburgh Police Chief on February 20, 2013, its first woman chief.
- In January 2004 she became only the second woman to hold an assistant chief's rank in the bureau, becoming assistant chief of investigations after 4 years of heading the 45 detective strong narcotics and vice squad.
- Prior to 2004 she was named acting supervisor of the investigative branch on several occasions that then Chief McNeily was called into military reserve service.
- She was promoted to commander in 1995. Chief McDonald is a lifelong resident of the Sheraden neighborhood and before joining the bureau in 1978 was a long time teacher and then city park administrator—at one point in the mid-1970s actually holding down three jobs.
- In the late 1970s she was one of the Pittsburgh police academy's first women recruits.
- One of her first assignments as a sworn officer was for the city's then newly adopted D.A.R.E.
- program. She graduated from suburban Slippery Rock University in 1973 and earned her first masters from Penn State University.
- In 1984 she earned a second master's degree in administration of justice from the University of Pittsburgh with a final thesis concerning "police stress". McDonald stated to press inquiries in January 2014 that she intends to retire around her 64th birthday in February 2014.
- Mayor Peduto's staff, however, has given a 6 months or more timeline for finding a permanent chief.
- In early September 2014 Cameron McLay was named to succeed McDonald who retired on September 15, 2014.
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