Susan Nixon:  

Hello Everyone, Once graduating from St. Leonard's, I attended the University Hospital of Nursing for only one year. I thought at that time that was not what I wanted to do. That following few months, I did research for my dad, James E. Nixon M.D. and then attended the Community College of Phila.got a degree and worked at Strawbridges in the payroll department, just to mention this one job. I took the Philadelphia Police test but had to wait for a year for the results to be accepted after rigged physical tests. That was when women were accepted in patrol, (male only position), the only female position was the truant/juvenile officers position. I got engaged and then accepted into the police department after four discrimination court stays were thrown out in the year 1979. I married a police officer, went through the academy, worked as the only female officer for about three years with my all male squad where I was assigned in South Philly. I had my daughter, 1984, after five years on the police force and got separted/divorced two years later. I have raised my daughter as a single parent until now. Through shifts,transfers and moving onto retiring from the force, I went from the street (patrol), police cruiser/wagon/beat, working inside the district, processing reports, cell block, criminal records, doing statistics, a training officer,crime scene t...Expand for more