Women peace officers in Hemphill County

In our Sept. 5 edition of The Record, we reported in error that Deputy Jeri-Lynn Ortega was Hemphill County’s first woman law enforcement officer. Former HCSO jailer/ dispatcher Donna Kay Dickey straightened us out with a reminder that at least two female officers blazed the trail for Ortega: Deputy Katie Gerhardt in the 1990s, and Deputy Susan Innis in the 1…