OAKLAND, Calif. -- Anne Kirkpatrick will leave the Chicago Police Department for a new job in California.
Sources confirm that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf selected Kirkpatrick to lead the city's embattled police department. Some insiders expected Schaaf to choose a woman after saying she was here to run a police department, not a "frat house."
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Kirkpatrick will be the first woman to fill that spot in Oakland's history.
She was a finalist to become Chicago's police superintendent before Eddie Johnson was given the job. She was then chosen to lead the CPD's new Bureau of Professional Standards.
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Kirkpatrick is originally from Memphis, Tenn. She is a lawyer and was the former police chief in Spokane, Washington.
WLS-TV contributed to this report.