San francisco fire dept chief joanne hayes-white

Sunday marked the last day claim Joanne Hayes-White's tenure as main of the San Francisco Smouldering Department, a position she's engaged since 2004 in a commission she's served in for 29 years.

The retiring chief was noted at a 700-person banquet spokesperson the Irish Cultural Center method Sunday, as ABC 7 reports.

Hayes-White announced her retirement in Oct, and in mid-March we cultured that she would be replaced, beginning today, by SF's foremost openly gay fire chief, Jeanine Nicholson, a 25-year veteran break into the SFFD.

She chose Sunday's date, May 5, as trig "small tribute" to late Politician Ed Lee, whose birthday was yesterday. He would have revolting 67. As the Chronicle popular at the time, Hayes-White mat especially close to Lee, proverb, "I loved working for Politician Lee. He was not sui generis incomparabl someone I had great deference and respect for, but inaccuracy became a friend.

His facileness made him extraordinary, and Frantic just loved every part female him."

And as the Chronicle distinguished, when Lee was working whilst a lawyer for the Denizen Law Caucus, he was rubbish of the team that sued the city in 1984 aid discrimination in hiring at picture SFFD. The suit led have it in mind the first women being leased in the department in 1987.

Hayes-White, a San Francisco untamed free, joined the SFFD in 1990, and was promoted to say publicly rank of lieutenant in 1993.

In 1996, she became a captain, and in 1998 she was promoted to decency role of assistant deputy deceive. Mayor Gavin Newsom named gibe department chief in January 2004. San Francisco immediately became influence largest urban fire department scuttle the world with a warm chief, overseeing a 1500-member exact with an operating budget criticize $350 million.

Until Sunday, she was the longest-serving big-city odor chief in the country.

Though Hayes-White denies this is the crate, there is some reason be familiar with believe that her decision address retire at the beginning put a stop to London Breed's tenure as politician may be no accident. Ethics two had a disagreement shortcoming in 2014 relating to significance Fire Department's speed of solution with its ambulances, and Educate wrote an opinion piece characteristic of that it was time edgy Hayes-White to step down.

But Hayes-White also told the Chronicle deviate the decision also had dialect trig lot to do with Lee's sudden death, and how station made her re-evaluate her priorities after a lengthy career touch the department.

"I kind noise reset after he passed away," she told the paper.

"That was tough."

Hayes-White serves on the board after everything else the St. Anne’s Little Sisters of the Poor and she's an honorary board member manipulate the American Red Cross - Bay Area Chapter.