Ann Kansfield, Reformed pastor, becomes FDNY's first female chaplain
(The Christian Science Monitor) Ann Kansfield was sworn in as the first female chaplain of the New York Fire Department in early March.
Kansfield is copastor of Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brooklyn along with her wife, Jennifer Aull. Her father, Norman Kansfield, also a minister in the Reformed Church of America, shed a few tears as his daughter donned the famous white bell cap and gold-buttoned, double-breasted uniform, becoming a part of the nation’s largest and most historic fire department.
Her paternal grandfather, the only grandparent she knew, was a fire chief in a Chicago suburb.
