Denise Watson - Treasurer
Denise K. Watson retired after 40 years of service in the Boston Police Department, as the longest serving female officer in the department. She was assigned to the Special Operations Division but has served in many areas and capacities during her career; Drug Control Division, Bureau of Investigative Services, District 2 and Recruit Investigations.
No stranger to board service, Denise’s first board experience was with the R. O. S. E. Theatre Company, who took their first production ‘Smitty’s Blues’ to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1989. She serves on the Friends of the Grove Hall Branch Library board, is the Operations Director of the board of Promoting Conflict Resolution, Inc, is the president of the local chapter of the AARP; in addition, she was president of the board of the Boston Coalition of Black Women and treasurer of the Massachusetts Association of Women in Law Enforcement.
Denise has been a member of the International Association of Women Police since 1990 and has served on the board since 2015, first as the Historian celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the organization and as a Region One Coordinator since 2016.
