Lisa Davis

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Lisa Davis is chief of the Austin Police Department, confirmed by the Austin City Council on August 6, 2024, and the second woman chosen as the department's permanent chief. Raised in Cincinnati, Davis served in the United States Navy and joined the Cincinnati Police Department in 1992. Over three decades there she rose to assistant chief and commander of the investigations bureau, overseeing homicide, major offenders, narcotics, and personal-crimes investigations; her work included the investigation into a serial rapist who posed as a police officer and leadership roles in Queen City crime strategy — and she was a finalist for the chief's job in Cincinnati and in Oakland before Austin came calling. Austin's city manager selected Davis on August 2, 2024, from a field assembled after Chief Joseph Chacon's 2023 retirement, and the council confirmed her unanimously four days later; she began in early September 2024 as the department's eleventh chief. As the Statesman's reporting, carried by Police1, put it at her confirmation, her appointment made her 'the second woman and first Black woman to hold the role' of Austin police chief. Davis took command of a department still negotiating the aftermath of the 2020 protest cases and a city effort to rebuild a police-oversight framework, with staffing recovery and contract talks at the center of her first years.

Notes

Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged police chiefs packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/police/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Police leadership — Chief, Austin Police Department (2024–present) · Photo slot: HELD — No rights-clean image found on Wikimedia Commons across general and targeted passes; Austin and Cincinnati department portraits are not rights-clean.

Sources

• police1.com — https://www.police1.com/women-in-law-enforcement/austin-pd-to-get-new-chief-after-unanimous-city-council-confirmation
• austintexas.gov — https://www.austintexas.gov/node/4858

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