West Wendover Police Lieutenant Sandra Gunter will be hanging up her belt this week.
A resident of West Wendover since the early 1990’s, is one of just a handful of WWPD officers who began their career in the department and have never left. Gunter was named interim chief with the retirement of Ron Supp earlier this year and stayed on to smooth the transition when new Chief Burdel Welsh took over the department in June.
A mother of three and a grand mother of two Gunter was one of a very select few– women to run a law enforcement agency in the United States. According to statistic female sheriffs or chiefs of police make up less than one percent of those positions in the country.
