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Rhonda Harris has been selected as Old Dominion University’s new police chief, the university announced Friday.
Harris comes to ODU from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., the flagship campus of New Jersey’s state university system, where she has been police chief since 2006. She began her law enforcement career in 1985 as a police officer in El Reno, Okla.
At ODU, Harris will oversee a force of nearly 130 police officers, security guards and civilian personnel. Her responsibilities will include crime prevention programs, 24-hour campuswide patrols, safety escort services, and emergency preparedness and response operations.
She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in public administration from Rutgers, and a master’s degree in forensic psychology from John Jay College.
She replaces Rudolph Burwell, who retired in June after a 40-year law enforcement career.