FILE – In this June 15, 2015, file photo, Dallas Police Chief David Brown briefs the media about a shooting at Dallas Police headquarters in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she selected former Dallas police Chief David Brown to be the next police superintendent of the nation’s third-largest city.

Lightfoot introduced Brown during a Thursday afternoon news conference.

Brown has more than 30 years in law enforcement and was the police chief in Dallas before his 2016 retirement.

The announcement comes a day after the city’s police board named him as one of three finalists for the job and hours after Lightfoot announced that a member of the force had died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.