Pine Bluff will introduce Brenda Davis-Jones as the city's new chief of police Wednesday.
The southeastern Arkansas city has been without a permanent chief since March, when Mayor Carl Redus Jr. fired John Howell for insubordination.
Collier Hill, a retired assistant police chief at the Tucson, Ariz., Police Department was in place as the interim chief since April.
Redus terminated Howell at a March 8 meeting at City Hall after an argument about anti-crime initiatives in Pine Bluff.
At a March 15 meeting, five Pine Bluff City Council members voted to reinstate him and three voted against. The council needed a two-thirds vote to override the mayor’s decision.
Howell filed a lawsuit in April that alleges that Redus, on several occasions in 2009 and 2010, insisted that Howell allow him to become privy to criminal investigation files.
Information for this article was contributed by Mike Linn of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.