Real Name: Sarah Essen Gordon (Deseased)
Occupation: Police Officer
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Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
Base Of Operations: Gotham City
Group Affiliations: GCPD
Relatives:James Gordon (Husband), Barbara Gordon (Step-Daughter), James Gordon Jr. (Step-Son)
First Appearance: Batman #404
Created by: Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli

After her transfer to Gotham, she received an odd assignment: helping fellow out-of-towner Lieutenant James Gordon track down a mysterious vigilante called the Bat-man. As they worked together on the case, Gordon found himself more and more attracted to her. The problem: he was married, with a baby on the way. Despite this, they fell deeply in love, and carried on an affair for months before Gordon finally called their romance off. Sergeant Essen got a transfer to New York City.

During her time in the Big Apple, Sarah married a police officer, who was later killed during a drug bust. Seeking a change of scene, she transferred back to Gotham, returning to the city's police force after about eight years away. Gordon and his wife had divorced in the meantime. Now reunited, Sarah and Jim rekindled their romance.

Sarah discovered a very different Gotham than the one she had left years earlier: a cleaned-up police force, with Commissioner Jim Gordon regularly consulting the expertise of Batman -- the vigilante they had tried to hunt down years before -- and, of course, costumed villains. Soon after her return, Sarah attempted to arrest Catwoman -- only to reluctantly join with the burglar to take down a human smuggling ring.

Sarah retained her distrust of costumed vigilantes. Cops fought crime; vigilantes were criminals. For Jim's sake, she tried to understand and accept the presence of Batman in Gotham -- but she was uneasy with Gordon's alliance to the end of her life.

After nearly dying from a heart attack, Jim wasted no time in proposing marriage to Sarah. They married on the sinking yacht of a crime lord, taking their vows before a corrupt judge who was running for mayor. Only in Gotham, as they say. At least the bride wore a white gown. Their unconventional ceremony notwithstanding, Sarah and Jim seemed on their way to happiness.

Yet the course of their lives refused to run smoothly. While Sarah experienced career success, heading up the GCPD's prestigious Major Crimes Squad, her marriage was in trouble. As their police careers created more and more stress, Sarah and Jim spent less and less time together. After a series of political games resulted in Sarah replacing her husband as Commissioner, Jim quit the police force in disgust. One can imagine the tension at home this twist of fate caused.

Sarah soon lost her position as Commissioner to another political crony, who was overwhelmed by the Contagion plague and subsequent looting and terror in the city. The mayor reluctantly returned Jim to the Commissioner post, and Sarah once again headed up the Major Crimes Squad. Jim and Sarah smoothed out their differences, and lived happily ever after... at least until the Gotham City earthquake.

Both survived the earthquake. They decided to remain in Gotham after the city was declared a federal No Man's Land, to bring some order to the anarchic streets. Sarah supported and fought alongside her husband and the rest of the Blue Boys, eradicating crime in the tribal territories of No Man's Land just as they had in the city before the quake. Sarah survived the hunger, the cold, a gunshot wound, and a beating by one of Two-Face's goons. By December, almost a year after No Man's Land had been declared, the Gordons felt they were going to make it. The federal government was repealing their declaration, and Gotham would be open again. Yet there would be one final test of Sarah's courage: in a manhunt for the Joker on Christmas Day, she discovered the madman amidst dozens of kidnapped infants at GCPD headquarters. Trying to catch a child the Joker had dropped, she was shot in the head at point blank range.