The names of four finalists for Oakland Police Chief were made public this weekend and the list includes two high-ranking Oakland officers, a Pennsylvania police commander who recently applied to be chief of Milwaukee, and the current chief of Seaside in Monterey County.

The two internal candidates are husband and wife: Oakland deputy chiefs LeRonne Armstrong and Drennon Lindsey.

Oakland’s citizen police commission on Friday evening announced the finalists on its official twitter account and invited the public to meet them at a virtual forum scheduled Nov. 5 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The Oakland Police Commission, which oversaw the search for a new chief, and Mayor Libby Schaaf, who gets to pick one of the four finalists, are hosting the event.

Pittsburgh police Commander Jason Lando and Seaside police Chief Abdul Pridgen are also finalists. Lando was one of six finalists for the Milwaukee police chief job but did not make the cut when the list was reduced to three candidates.

Pridgen, who became chief in Seaside, a town of about 34,000 people, in 2018, earlier this year testified before the California legislature about changing state law to make it easier for a police chief to fire officers for egregious behavior.

Lindsey joined the OPD in 1998. She has worked in the department’s training and assessment of officers, the criminal investigation division and crime lab.

Armstrong, a native of West Oakland, joined the OPD in 1999. He has worked in the problem solving officer unit, the gang intelligent task force and commanded the youth and school safety section of the department.

Oakland is searching for a new police leader after the Oakland Police Commission and Mayor Schaaf voted to fire Chief Anne Kirkpatrick in February. The city has had 10 police chiefs since 2003, including tumultuous spans when scandals led to the city having three police chiefs in one week in both 2013 and 2016.

This search is the first under the police commission, a citizen oversight board voters established in November 2016. Under the voter initiative, a supermajority of the police commission can fire a chief with cause, or without cause if the mayor joins the vote. The commission is in charge of the search for a new chief, and presents four finalists to the mayor. In this case, Mayor Schaaf can pick one candidate or reject them all, starting the search over.

Former San Mateo police Chief Susan Manheimer has served as interim Oakland chief since Kirkpatrick’s firing.

Thursday’s public forum is a break from prior hiring practices. In previous years, Oakland has not had a public vetting of candidates for prominent offices, such as police chief and fire chief.