FILE - MOBILE, AL - JANUARY 30: Official Maia Chaka #180 during the 2021 Resse's Senior Bowl at Hancock Whitney Stadium on the campus of the University of South Alabama on January 30, 2021 in Mobile, Alabama. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)(AP) – The NFL has hired Maia Chaka as the first Black female official in league history. “I am honored to be selected as an NFL official,” Chaka said. “Maia’s years of hard work, dedication and perseverance — including as part of the NFL Officiating Development Program — have earned her a position as an NFL official,” said Troy Vincent, who oversees the league's football operations. The NFL did not specify which officiating position she will work.