Cathy Lanier

Cathy Lanier Entered Policing to Support Her Son and Finish School

Cathy Lanier, now the NFL’s chief security officer and a former Washington, D.C., police chief, tells Tim Ferriss that her path into law enforcement began less as a calling than as a way to support her son and keep going to school. Pregnant at 14, married at 15 and later separated, Lanier says a GED passed by one point, two jobs and tuition reimbursement from the Metropolitan Police Department became the practical steps that moved her from survival to a career in command.