Anne Kirkpatrick (born 1959) is an American law enforcement officer and the current superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department.

She later served as Chief of Police for five years each in Ellensburg, Federal Way, and finally Spokane, from which position she retired in 2012 to become a leadership instructor for the FBI.

[2] On January 4, 2017, after six months in Chicago, Kirkpatrick was appointed by Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California, as the city's first female Chief of Police.

[7] Kirkpatrick subsequently filed a federal lawsuit accusing the city of firing her as retaliation for reports she had made against the behavior of commissioners.

[8] In July 2022, the City of Oakland agreed to pay her that amount plus her legal costs, a total of $1.5 million.