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Article: The nation's first black woman sheriff: Jackie Barrett.(Fulton County, Georgia, sheriff)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- August 1, 1995
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When Jacquelyn H. Barrett was elected on November 3,1992, as the country's first African-American female sheriff, she hoped her victory would help dispel people's image of the typical Georgia sheriff--a pot-bellied Southern gentleman with a chewed-end cigar dangling from the side of his mouth. Nearly three years later, she concedes that it will be a while before this "hard and ingrained" image is replaced, but that she has definitely given people other options to consider.
"I am a Black woman. I can't, and I don't choose to, change anything about that [attribution]. I say to other women, and I have to keep saying to myself, 'You bring to the table, what you bring to ...