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Ella M. Bully-Cummings (born 1958) became the first female police chief of Detroit, the tenth-largest police force in the United States, when Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appointed her on November 3, 2003.

She is married to Attorney William Cummings, a retired Detroit police commander. She was previously married to former Wayne County Sheriff, former Detroit Police Chief Warren C. Evans.

Bully-Cummings was born in Japan, the second-oldest of eight children of an African American repairman and a Japanese housewife. Her parents met when her father was serving in the U.S. Army as part of the American Occupation forces. The family settled in Detroit, her Mississippi-born father's adopted hometown, before she turned two.

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