{{Infobox officeholder | image = | caption = '''33rd Police Commissioner & Chief''' | birth_name = Daniel Isom | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|3|01}} | birth_place = <!-- link places (include brackets) --> | title = 33rd [[Commissioner of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department]] | 1blankname = {{nowrap|Director of Public Safety}} | 1namedata = Richard Gray | 2blankname = {{nowrap|Mayor of St. Louis}} | 2namedata = [[Francis Slay]] | term_start = October 6, 2008 | term_end = December 4, 2013 | predecessor = [[Joe Mokwa]] | successor = [[Sam Dotson]] | office2 = Director of the [[Missouri Department of Public Safety]] | term_start2 = September 2014 | term_end2 = February 2015 | predecessor2 = Jerry Lee | successor2 = Peter Lyskowski | office3 = 10th Director of the [[Public Safety Department - City of St. Louis]] | term_start3 = April 20, 2021 | term_end3 = February 11, 2023 | predecessor3 = [[Jimmie M. Edwards]] | successor3 = Charles Coyle | alma_mater = [[University of Missouri-St. Louis]] | spouse = }}

'''Daniel Isom''' was appointed St. Louis' 33rd [[Police Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis|Police Commissioner]] on October 6, 2008, and was St. Louis' third African-American police chief.<ref>[http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/srlinks.nsf/0/827471ABE9D70160862574DA00718986?OpenDocument StLouis Post-Dispatch]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Isom took a leave of absence as the executive director of the Regional Justice Information Service, most commonly known as REJIS. in April 2021 due to his appointment as Interim Director of the [[Public Safety Department - City of St. Louis]] by Mayor [[Tishaura Jones]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Former St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom as the city's new public safety director|url=https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/st-louis-new-public-safety-director-dan-isom/63-4df33a98-53ef-449a-9b3b-73ba4f3aa3b2|work=KSDK|date=15 April 2021}}</ref>

He was previously [[Commissioner of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department|St Louis' Police Commissioner & Chief]] from 2008 to 2013.

==Career and education== He joined the [[St. Louis Police Department|Metropolitan Police Department]] on August 29, 1988. During his career, he served in patrol, investigations, training, and internal affairs positions. Promoted through the ranks, finally to Major in 2007, he worked as the Special Projects Assistant to the Police Commissioner until his promotion to Police Commissioner.

He previously served as an adjunct professor at [[Harris Stowe State University]] and an instructor at [[St. Louis Community College]] where he taught criminal justice, criminology, and public safety courses.

He has received an associate degree in Criminal Justice from [[Forest Park Community College]], a Bachelor's, Master's and a Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice, all from the [[University of Missouri–St. Louis|University of Missouri-St. Louis]]. He also holds a master's in Public Administration from [[Saint Louis University (United States)|Saint Louis University]].

He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the Police Executive Forum Senior Management Institute and the FBI National Executives Institute.

[[Eisenhower Fellowships]] selected Daniel Isom as a U.S.A. Eisenhower Fellow in 2013. He traveled to Ireland and Germany for four weeks to study training and community policing in Europe.

The University of Chicago Institute of Politics selected him as an IOP Fellow in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://politics.uchicago.edu/fellows-program/past-fellows|title=Past Fellows|website=politics.uchicago.edu|access-date=2016-12-17|archive-date=2020-06-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626000955/http://politics.uchicago.edu/fellows-program/past-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref> Isom delivered a series of seminars on police community relations and the future of policing in America.

===Life after police chief=== After retiring from the St. Louis Police Department, he took a teaching position on January 1, 2013, at the [[University of Missouri–St. Louis|University of Missouri-St. Louis]] (UMSL). He is now an E. Desmond Lee Professor of Policing and the Community in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at UMSL.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.umsl.edu/desleecollaborative/endowed-professors.html|title=Endowed Professors|website=www.umsl.edu|access-date=2016-12-17}}</ref>

In August 2014, he was appointed as Director of the [[Missouri Department of Public Safety]] in the Cabinet of Governor [[Jay Nixon]].<ref>[http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/former-st-louis-police-chief-gets-spot-in-nixon-s/article_b298dc12-9e6c-586c-bc85-3c180d3e429b.html Former St. Louis police chief gets spot in Nixon's cabinet, leading public safety (St. Louis Post-Dispatch article)]</ref> On November 18, 2014, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon appointed the Ferguson Commission – a volunteer group of 16 diverse community leaders to listen to and engage with area organizations, national thought leaders, institutions, experts and citizens.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stlpositivechange.org/about-us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220093424/http://stlpositivechange.org/about-us|url-status=usurped|archive-date=December 20, 2014|title = About the Commission &#124; St. Louis Positive Change}}</ref> Isom was appointed as a commissioner and served as the co-chair of the commission task force on police community relations.

==References== {{Portal|Biography|United States}} {{Reflist}}

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