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Vicky M. Stormo - Associate
Vicky M. Stormo retired after 29 years of law enforcement service, most recently having served as the Chief of Police at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1999 to 2008. UWPD is a fully accredited law enforcement agency by the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies. The fifty-five commissioned officers of the University of Washington Police Department oversee 680 acres with a service population of 67,000 people. The University of Washington police address many challenges including activism in the Northwest that led to the WTO riots and arson of the Urban Horticulture Center; dignitary protection; managing football games with 74,000 screaming Husky fans; a top ten Medical Center and Health Sciences department; and a major research institution. She retired from the Albuquerque Police Department at the rank of lieutenant to take the chief's job at UW in Seattle. While in Albuquerque, she worked in many facets of the department, including patrol, detectives, civil litigation, operations review, watch commander, communications center commander, and recruiting and selection. She was credited with increasing the number of women applicants from 8% to 25% while serving as the Recruitment and Selection commander and has spoken nationally about the strategy used to attract women along with the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Sciences (IWITTS). She also increased the number of women at the UWPD to 24%, doubling the national average. In her law enforcement career, she was the Officer of the Month in her rookie year, was featured on Paul Harvey for solving a series of armed robberies utilizing computers when computer technology was new to law enforcement, and has received the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women Trailblazer award and the YWCA Woman on the Move award. She has also received the Breaking the Glass Ceiling award from the National Center for Women and Policing. Ms. Stormo has a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminology from the University of Albuquerque and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of New Mexico. She is a past President of the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives.
