Lucile Jeardeau was the San Diego Police Department’s first policewoman, and she also was the first policewoman of Southern California. From this resolution we can know City Council appointed Miss Lucile Jeardeau as a special policewoman for a term of three months, with a monthly salary of $75.00. She patrolled the streets and beaches enforcing the bathing suit regulations of the time. Lucile Jeardeau was born in Wisconsin 1869, and she came with her family to the La Jolla area in 1895. 

• 19170620 Resolution 22853 Appointing Miss Lucile Jeardeau as a Police Woman at La Jolla