List of Birmingham police chiefs

This is a List of Birmingham police chiefs since the founding of the Birmingham Police Department in 1871:

• O. D. Williams, 1871–1873
• W. G. Oliver, 1873–1875
• J. B. Webb, 1875–1876
• Ed G. Taylor, 1876–1878
• Ben Plosser, 1878
• L. M. Teal, 1878–1879
• G. H. Pond, 1879–1880
• F. W. Beall, 1880–1881
• W. G. Oliver, 1881–1882
• M. P. Lewis, 1882–1884
• F. H. Gafford, 1884–1887
• A. O. Pickard, 1887–1891 (also noted as O. A. Pickard)
• S. H. Norton, 1891–1893
• Thomas McDonald, 1893–1898
• C. W. Austin, 1898–1901
• William Wier, 1901–1910
• George Bodeker, 1910–1914
• Martin Eagan, 1914–1917
• Thomas Shirley, 1917–1921
• Fred H. McDuff, 1921–1933
• Luther Hollums, 1933–1937
• T. A. Riley, 1937–1943
• Floyd Eddins, 1943–1950
• Marcus Hancock, 1951–1952
• C. L. Pierce, 1952–1954
• G. L. Pattie, 1954–1955
• Jamie Moore, 1956–1972
• James C. Parsons, 1972–1978
• Bill Myers, 1978–1981
• Arthur Deutsch, 1981–1991
• Johnnie Johnson, Jr 1991–1998
• Mike Coppage, 1998–2003
• Annetta Nunn, 2003–2007
• A. C. Roper, 2007–present

References

• Norton, Bertha Bendall (1970) Birmingham's First Magic Century: Were You There?. Birmingham: self-published/Lakeshore Press