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Press record swept for St. Joseph County firsts; county officer rosters as residue
One county first was reached, at press strength, and it prints with the sweep's limits stated: the first woman promoted to captain in the St. Joseph County sheriff's department. Mary Margaret O'Brien joined the sheriff's department in 1972 and, in October 1999, became the first woman in St. Joseph County promoted to captain in that department — as the South Bend Tribune's record carries it, reached at the strength of a press database's item record. Her first is a county-service first of exactly the class the checklist describes — first uniformed rank of her sex in the county's largest service — and it prints as a pointer into the county's file, where her service course belongs. The sweep's other limbs returned nothing at reached strength: no first woman or first Black holder of the county's sheriff, prosecutor, or other elected offices was found in the carriers reached, and no first of those classes is claimed. The residue stands expressly: the county's officer rosters and departmental histories, swept office by office, are the settlers for the remaining firsts — and the item closes mixed, one first printed, its class swept at press strength only.