10 Facts About Richard Pennington

Richard Pennington served as Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1994 to 2002 and Chief of the Atlanta Police Department in Atlanta, Georgia from 2002 to 2010.

The railroad closed while Richard Pennington was in high school and the family moved to Gary, Indiana, where his father became a crane operator with US Steel as well as a part-time deputy sheriff.

Richard Pennington spent childhood summers in rural Alabama with his grandfather.

At 18, Richard Pennington enlisted in the US Air Force and served as a member of the US Air Force Security Police unit during the Vietnam War.

Richard Pennington began his career in law enforcement in 1968 as an officer in the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia ; his first partner was Donald Graham who became publisher of The Washington Post.

Richard Pennington served in MPD for 26 years and was eventually promoted to assistant chief.

Richard Pennington was a candidate in the 2002 New Orleans mayoral election.

In 2009, Richard Pennington was a defendant in a lawsuit which alleges that he, along with other senior officers, engaged in a criminal conspiracy to retaliate against a police officer who testified on behalf of a defendant in a bond hearing in federal court.

Richard Pennington was married from 1974 to 1984 and had one son from this marriage.

Richard Pennington remarried in 1992 and had a second son.