LAS VEGAS (AP) Anne Carpenter was ready to retire as the chief of Nevada Parole and Probation division after 25 years in the male-dominated state Department of Public Safety.
But the same week U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, George Togliatti, director of Nevada’s public safety force, asked Carpenter if she would replace retiring Nevada Highway Patrol Col. Daniel Solow.
There had never been a woman in the position. Carpenter took the weekend to think about it.
“I was happy where I was,” Carpenter, 51, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I knew I was going to retire, and that was fine.”