Who was very first woman in SWAT and which department?

Question

LA just added a woman this year after the women in the Dallas teams.

Answer 1

It was in Miami, and when they eventually got four women on the team they split off and started their own unit and called it the Tactical Women's Attack Team.

Answer 2

Nina Acosta

Answer 3

Believe it or not over the years there have been a number of women from various departments/agencies in tactical teams.

Tracking down who exactly was the 'first' is a little hard as .

In 1984 Marty Smith, a deputy with the San Bernadino County Sheriff's Department became the first woman to ever pass the FBI's "counterterrorist and SWAT tactics" school and was on the team as a sniper.

Lieutenant Julie Erickson, Illinois State Police drug asset forfeiture section, joined the Tactical Response Team (TRT) in 1988. She was the first woman on TRT for the Illinois State Police.

Janice Easterling of the Dallas Police Department joined the SWAT team in 1988.

Lieutenant Denice Faxton of the Tippecanoe Sheriffs Department in north central Indiana made the SWAT team in 1991.

Nina Acosta was the LAPD's first woman to try out to become a SWAT officer twice in the 1990s. She passed the grueling fitness tests but wasn't accepted into SWAT's training program. She successfully sued the LAPD for gender discrimination.