A former deputy chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department will come back to serve as its interim chief, Mayor Greg Fischer announced Monday. When Yvette Gentry assumes the role, she will become the first woman to lead the law enforcement agency in Kentucky’s largest city.

Gentry, who is Black, will also be the second temporary chief in the past four months. She’ll succeed Rob Schroeder, who Fischer said will retire from the department Oct. 1. In assuming her new duties, Gentry will take a leave of absence from her current positions at Metro United Way and the Rajon Rondo Foundation. She starts with a transitionary period next Monday.