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Nun who became pioneering FBI agent dies at 83
Joanne Eileen Misko, born January 7 1941 in Niagara Falls New York, taught at Mount Mercy Academy before joining the FBI in 1970. She and Susan Roley Malone were the first female special agents in decades, served in St Louis and elsewhere, aided Wounded Knee firefight, sued for sex discrimination after retirement, and died December 13 at a Wheatfield nursing home.
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Mount Mercy Academy
Buffalo
Joanne Pierce Misko
Sisters of Mercy Convent
Bureau
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
L. Patrick Gray
Misko
Marine Corps
Susan Roley Malone
FBI Academy
Quantico
Virginia
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Malone
St. Louis
Field Office
Buffalo News
The
Mt. St. Joseph College
Medaille College
St. Bonaventure University
Olean
New York
Sun-Sentinel
Michael Misko
American Police Hall of Fame
Wheatfield
James Pierce
Terry Pierce
Mark
Niagara Falls Police Department
Mark Pierce
Buffalo Evening News
Joanne