Huckleberries: She shattered glass ceilings with her badge
Elaine Barrett didn’t stop living in her 50s when her husband of 35 years died unexpectedly.
Instead, she challenged herself and applied for a job with the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office that no woman had held before: Detective.
And, according to the Coeur d’Alene Press, that’s how she went from shuffling papers in the KCSO’s civil division “to sleuthing sex crimes, child abuse assaults, and batteries.”
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