Judith Livers Brewer
Judith Livers Brewer was the first woman in the United States to become a career firefighter and the first American woman to serve as a battalion chief. Biography. In 1974, Brewer, then Judith Livers, joined the Arlington County Fire Department in Arlington, Virginia making her the nation's first career firefighter. She was assigned to Fire Station 4 located in Arlington's Clarendon neighborhood. Brewer retired in 1999 at which time she was serving at the nation's first woman battalion chief.