Magda Fernandez Chief Of Police, Port of San Diego on The Greater Good Podcast

Police Chief Magda Fernandez was sworn in on May 19, 2022 at the Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier. In that moment, she not only became the department’s first Latina chief, but the first in the county.

Fernandez joins a small group of women who have ascended to the position of police chief in the region, including Betty Kelepecz, who became the Harbor Police Department’s first woman chief in 2003. Fernandez will be one of two women chiefs across the county. The other is Chula Vista police Chief Roxana Kennedy.