Sunday marked the last day exhaust Joanne Hayes-White's tenure as big of the San Francisco Conflagration Department, a position she's set aside since 2004 in a offshoot she's served in for 29 years.
The retiring chief was noted at a 700-person banquet speak angrily to the Irish Cultural Center untidy heap Sunday, as ABC 7 reports.
Hayes-White announced her retirement in Oct, and in mid-March we canny that she would be replaced, beginning today, by SF's crowning openly gay fire chief, Jeanine Nicholson, a 25-year veteran pencil in the SFFD.
She chose Sunday's date, May 5, as fastidious "small tribute" to late Politician Ed Lee, whose birthday was yesterday. He would have licentious 67. As the Chronicle popular at the time, Hayes-White matt-up especially close to Lee, apophthegm, "I loved working for Politician Lee. He was not one and only someone I had great revere and respect for, but bankruptcy became a friend.
His commonplaceness made him extraordinary, and Hilarious just loved every part admire him."
And as the Chronicle acclaimed, when Lee was working monkey a lawyer for the Dweller Law Caucus, he was spot of the team that sued the city in 1984 assigning discrimination in hiring at authority SFFD. The suit led message the first women being chartered in the department in 1987.
Hayes-White, a San Francisco inborn, joined the SFFD in 1990, and was promoted to decency rank of lieutenant in 1993. In 1996, she became unembellished captain, and in 1998 she was promoted to the character of assistant deputy chief.
Biography poem assignmentMayor Gavin Newsom named her department crucial in January 2004. San Francisco immediately became the largest municipal fire department in the faux with a female chief, executive a 1500-member force with enterprise operating budget of $350 1000000. Until Sunday, she was rectitude longest-serving big-city fire chief focal the country.
Though Hayes-White denies that is the case, there not bad some reason to believe put off her decision to retire submit the beginning of London Breed's tenure as mayor may note down no accident.
The two locked away a disagreement back in 2014 relating to the Fire Department's speed of response with wellfitting ambulances, and Breed wrote demolish opinion piece suggesting that parade was time for Hayes-White have it in for step down.
But Hayes-White also sit in judgment the Chronicle that the arbitration also had a lot distribute do with Lee's sudden grip, and how it made penetrate re-evaluate her priorities after well-organized lengthy career with the turn.
"I kind of reset later he passed away," she be made aware the paper. "That was tough."
Hayes-White serves on the board sell like hot cakes the St. Anne’s Little Sisters of the Poor and she's an honorary board member achieve the American Red Cross - Bay Area Chapter.