Louisa Dixon made law enforcement history in 1988 when she
was appointed Mississippi's Commissioner of Public Safety,
which put her in charge of the Mississippi Highway Patrol,
the first woman to command a state police force, and possibly
the highest-ranking woman officer in American police
history.
Oddly, she was never actually a professional police officer.
Mississippi apparently rarely appoints professional law
enforcement officers to this position. She was an able
administrator, however, and after leaving the Patrol, she
wrote two novels (with a third on the way) about Laura Owen,
the first women Commissioner of Public Safety in
Mississippi's history, NEXT TO LAST CHANCE and OUTSIDE
CHANCE.
Her style is pretty much of the serviceable nuts-and-bolts
kind, but the stories, weaving police procedure with Southern
politics, are quite involving and her insider knowledge is
evident.
JIM DOHERTY
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