Maia Chaka made history as the first Black woman to become an NFL official. The announcement of Chaka’s promotion was made Friday morning on the Today Show.
Chaka joins her friend, Sarah Thomas, who made history when she became the first female hired as a full-time NFL official in 2015. Thomas became the first woman official to work a Super Bowl when she was part of the seven-person crew in Tampa Bay last month.
“I thought he was just calling to give me some advice on something else or to look at some film,” Chaka, a Norfolk State University graduate who teaches health and physical education at Renaissance Academy in Virginia Beach, said Friday in a telephone interview. “I wasn’t expecting to get a call to be hired.”
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