Chief of Police, Todd Schmaderer, was born and raised in Omaha. He graduated from Roncalli High school in 1990. After high school Schmaderer went to Wayne State on a football scholarship, then transferred to University of Nebraska Omaha after a year. At University of Nebraska at Omaha, Schmaderer got a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. Having a father in the police force, Schmaderer always had an interest in law enforcement, but wasn’t sure he wanted to follow the family trade.

Richard Berkshire is an Omaha native who graduated from Westside High School in 1972. He attended Hastings College where he triple majored in Political science, Pre-Law and Economics. Berkshire’s father was a lawyer whose office was on the fourteenth floor of the Kiewit Plaza. Berkshire spent a lot of time around his father’s practice. He started working at the office mowing the lawns and running errands for the firm.

Hannah Sommers grew up in Kansas City, then went to University of Missouri for Broadcast Journalism. She learned it was not the field for her, but the job helped hone her questioning and writing skills. Law School presented a different way to write, law writing being more repetitive than journalistic writing. “It’s been kind of fun to evolve as that kind of writer,” Hannah Sommers said. The schedule she found in journalism drove her to change careers.