By Solomon Crenshaw Jr. For the Birmingham Times Shelia Finney remembers her father encouraging her to always reach for the next rung of the employment ladder. “He just always instilled in [my siblings and me a desire] to go as far as we can anywhere and make the best of any career,” she said of her late father, Billy Frazier Sr. “He said, ‘Don’t ever just stop. Go as high in an organization as you can. That’s always been my goal.’” Finney is a Birmingham Police Department (BPD) captain. That’s not unusual. Several other women have risen through the ranks of the department, including Annetta Nunn, the first woman to serve as chief of police in Birmingham in 2003. Nonetheless, Finney is part of history.