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Sue W. Gordon
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Police Administrator
Sue W. Gordon was
assigned as the Commanding Officer, Personnel Division
in June, 2006. As the CO, Personnel Division, she serves
as the Department's Personnel Director and advises top
Department management on personnel related laws, rules,
regulations, policies, and procedures. Ms. Gordon is
also responsible for processing and assigning all sworn
and civilian personnel, conducting background
investigations of all civilian personnel, processing all
sick and injured employees, administering the
Department's Return to Work Program, processing and
investigating sworn employees who apply for pensions,
and maintaining all personnel and medical records of the
Department.

Upon graduation from
college, Ms. Gordon moved to Los Angeles, and was
appointed to the Los Angeles Police Department in 1971
in the City's administrative series. She was first
assigned to Traffic Services Division and was
subsequently promoted and transferred to the Board of
Police Commissioners where she served as a staff
assistant. In 1977, she promoted to the City's Personnel
Analyst series and transferred to the City's Personnel
Department where she was involved in selection,
classification, and EEO activities. During her tenure at
the Personnel Department, she was involved in the
development of the new Department of Telecommunications
and the consolidation of parking functions into the
Department of Transportation, as well as serving as the
liaison analyst to the Department of Water and Power.
She served as the City's first Sexual Harassment
Awareness Coordinator and was also the supervisor of all
sworn promotional examinations for both the Police and
Fire Departments.

In 1997, she returned to the
Police Department when she transferred to the Office of
the Inspector General where she served as staff to the
Domestic Violence Task Force. Ms. Gordon subsequently
transferred to Civilian Employment Section, Personnel
Division, and in 2000, she became Officer in Charge of
Civilian Personnel Services Section, Personnel Division.
In addition to being responsible for the Department's
civilian personnel program, she participated on the
Police Service Representative Task Force, implemented
the reinstatement of the Police Student Worker Program,
conducted class hiring for Detention Officer, Property
Officer and Police Service Representative, and managed
civilian hiring activities in response to the hiring
freezes.

Ms. Gordon promoted to
Police Administrator in October 2004 and was assigned as
the Commanding Officer, Property Division. She was
responsible for overseeing four warehouses and 16
geographic property rooms and managing 92 personnel
engaged in receiving, storing, and releasing items
booked into the custody of the Los Angeles Police
Department.

Ms. Gordon was born in the
Presidio, San Francisco into an Army family and had the
opportunity to live in a variety of places, including
the Panama Canal Zone before settling in North Carolina.
She completed high school and college in North Carolina,
receiving a bachelor's degree from Barton College in
Wilson, North Carolina. Ms. Gordon is married with two
grown daughters and currently lives in Studio City with
her husband, Tony.

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