The City of Wheaton has hired more female police. Madelyn Feldott, Sophia Trekas and Jenna Uhlir (L-to R) | City of Wheaton
The City of Wheaton has hired more female police. Madelyn Feldott, Sophia Trekas and Jenna Uhlir (L-to R) | City of Wheaton
The City of Wheaton has hired three new female police officers.
That's according to a department announcement on Wednesday Aug. 20.
The new officers, Madelyn R. Feldott, Sophia S.M. Trekas and Jenna M. Uhlir, were sworn in at the Wheaton City Council meeting on Monday, Aug. 18.
Feldott graduated from Naperville Central in 2020. She played soccer at St. Ambrose University.
Trekas, 22, graduated from Neuqua Valley in 2021 and Illinois State University in 2025.
Uhlir, 27, is a native of Lombard who lives in Carol Stream. Her father, Andrew is a Wheaton Police Detective.
Last September, the City of Wheaton swore in two female officers, Eleftheria Lois and Grace A. Turney.
The Wheaton Police Department has 70 sworn officers, including 42 patrol officers, 13 "command staff" and eight detectives.
According a Nov. 2022 report by the U.S. Department of Justice Bureaur of Justice Statistics, "about 14% of full-time sworn (police) officers... were female."
The Chicago Police Department's 2023 Annual Report said the Chicago Police Department had was 25 percent female, with 2,888 sworn officers of 11,703 total. It said CPD hired 183 female officers in 2023, compared to 503 men.
Wheaton's Police Chief is Princeton J. "P.J." Youker. He took over in Aug. 2023, after the retirement of Chief Bill Murphy.
Youker is a Wheaton native who joined the police department in 2001 and worked as a patrol officer, detective, sergeant, lieutenant and deputy chief before ascending to police chief.
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