Janeé Harteau is the former Chief of the Minneapolis Police Department.

^[0]She was appointed by Mayor R.T.

Rybak to replace former chief Tim Dolan in 2012.

^[0]She was on personal leave when a police officer shot an Australian woman to death.

Medaria Arradondo took over as police chief.

Harteau grew up in Duluth with her mom and siblings after her parents divorced.

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She got a law enforcement degree from Hibbing Community College in 1986.

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She was hired as a Minneapolis poloce officer in 1987.

^[1]Harteau is the first woman to lead the department in its 150 year history.

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She filed a discrimination lawsuit against the police department ^[1]for sexual harassment and discrimination with Minnesota's Human Rights Department in 1996.

^[1]Harteau said officers were interrupting police radio transmissions she and Keegel were making so they could not be heard.

^[1]They have an adult daughter.

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A lesbian, she is reported to be one-sixteenth Chippewa and is a registered member of the Bad River Reservation in Wisconsin.

^[1]For more than 25 years she has been in a domestic partnership with police Sergeant Holly Keegel.

^[1]They once shared patrol duties.

^[1]They were married in 2013 when it became legal in Minnesota.

She is a 25 year veteran of the department.

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