APOPKA, Fla. — If you ask Apopka’s Chief of Police Lovetta Quinn-Henry when her career began, she’d laugh and say her first role was a safety patrol in sixth grade.
“I do believe that’s where I really found a joy to being a leader and helping others,” she said. “So, helping my fellow classmates cross the street in front of the school seemed to have been the beginning.”
It marked the beginning of what would become an impressive career. Quinn-Henry was a corrections officer at the Department of Corrections and Orange County Corrections. Then, she spent 25 years at the Orlando Police Department, where she retired as a deputy chief…