“I was the first woman on the Charles County Sheriff’s Department, hired in 1974, 50 years ago,” says Sylvia Mudd with a proud smile. She was a trailblazer in her local law enforcement community. “It was frightening in that nobody really knew how it was going to work out, especially me. But I wanted to be given the chance and the chance was to prove myself and to prove to others that I could do the job and that women could do the job.”