Pool CQ Roll Call, via AP
In this June 16, 2020 file photo, Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives and Chief of Police of the Durham, N.C., Police Department, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on police use of force and community relations on on Capitol Hill in Washington.
After serving Durham for five years as its police chief, C.J. Davis is leaving the Bull City.
On Monday, it was announced by the City of Memphis, Tennessee, that Davis had been hired as its new chief of police. She is the first woman to lead the department, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal.