Maj. Peggy Horn is retiring from the Richmond Police Department to work for the Virginia Attorney General’s Office.
Horn, a 25-year veteran and the department’s highest-ranking female officer, is leaving to work as an investigative supervisor for the Medicaid fraud unit at the Attorney General’s Office.
Horn joined the Police Department in December 1985, several months after she graduated from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
“I grew up here,” she said of her time with the department. She also went on to earn a master’s degree in criminal justice from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Horn, 47, started as a patrol officer in the Church Hill area and held several positions as she moved up the ranks, including a couple of stints as a narcotics investigator and as a supervisor in Major Crimes.
Most recently, she has overseen First and Second precincts.
“I really have had a good career here,” she said. “I do not have one regret on God’s green Earth.”
Her biggest challenge, she said, has been to balance her family life and her job. Her husband, Cmdr. Jimmy Horn, oversees Richmond’s Fourth Precinct.
“To do this job right, it has required me to be on call 24-7 for the past 10 years,” she said. “I have slept with a Blackberry for the past 10 years.”
“I’m just looking for a little normalcy,” she added.
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Maj. Peggy Horn, 47, started as a patrol officer in the Church Hill area and was promoted through the ranks.
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Published: August 31, 2010
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