Meet Tawana Moody, the first Black woman to lead the Jersey City Police Department
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 19, 2021
Jersey City Police Director Tawana Moody on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
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Depending on where she is, Tawana Moody may go by one of several names.
Within the Jersey City Police Department, she is Director Moody, the leader of the police force. At Seeds of Greatness Fellowship, the South Orange church where she is an ordained minister, she is known as “Minister T.” In conversation, she sometimes refers to herself in the third person, as just Tawana.