Your Candidate
Bill's Background
Bill was raised in the south end of the county and graduated from S.C.H.C. in 1985. He is married to his wife of 30 years, Wendy, and they have four grown children and five grandchildren. Bill and Wendy are members of Way of the Cross Baptist Church. Your candidate retired from the Chattanooga Police Dept. after a stellar career of 28 years with many accomplishments, gathering unmatched experience that will assist him in building a Sheriff's Office better suited to serve us and one we can all be proud of. Bill received the Chattanooga Police Department's Outstanding Performance Award, awards from the U.S. Atty, Hamilton County District Atty and the United States Department of Justice, just to name a few, as well as frequent recognition for his success as a patrolman as well as his very successfull investigations and prosecutions of murders, serial rapes, and multiple other violent felonies.
Your candidate has experience working undercover narcotics and vice cases and midnight shift patrol in the high crime areas of Chattanooga prior to being assigned to the Homicide Unit in 1994, where he worked as a detective, supervisor, and management. He completed his career after being assigned and successfully restructuring the 100 plus person investigative services as well as helping create the D.A's Office Cold Case Unit.
Bill has taught thousands of law enforcement professionals from the rookie patrolman to the seasoned police administrator all across the southeastern United States. His specialized training covers the investigations of the murders of police officers and how some department policies are putting officers at risk. Bill has been contacted by police administrators advising him their department policies are being changed due to his training. Bill's class has been used by an F.B.I. Agent as a training point at the F.B.I. headquarters
Your candidate has received training and experience in the following areas, just to name a few:
Field Training Officer
Community Policing
Criminal Patrol
Explosives Investigations
Homicide Investigations
Cold Case Investigations
Narcotics Investigations
Crime Scene Investigations
Wiretap Investigations
Auto Theft Investigations
Infant Death Investigations
Child Abuse Investigations
Domestic Violence Investiations
Police Internal Affairs
Police Involved Shootings
Police Supervision
Police Management
Budgeting for Outcome
Your candidate has served on the following Boards:
Sequatchie Co. G.I.R.L.S. (Softball)
S.C.H.S. Bullpen Club (Baseball)
Brier Branch H.O.A.
Hamilton County Domestic Violence Fatality Review
Hamilton County Domestic Violence Court Protocol
Hamilton Co. Child Fatality Review
Chattanooga P.D. Administrative Review
Next Step Resource Center
Your candidate's top issues
Building a professional, courteous and accountable agency that will better serve our citizens is a must. Otherwise, everything else we attempt to build will fail. We will build a partnership with our citizens and begin to address the drug epidemic we have at hand, along with all the crime that comes with it. This will include our massive drug program, S.A.F.E. A part of this program will target the top five identified drug dealers in our area. When one goes to prison, another will be added to the list. We will work every day to improve our department as well as the county's future!!
Decades of involvement
Bill has volunteered much of his adult life, coaching Sequatchie Co softball and baseball teams, serving as President of Sequatchie Co. G.I.R.L.S. softball and V.P of the Sequatchie County High School baseball team's Bullpen club.During this time he and his board created the Tee-ball leage that exists today. Bill presented the idea of the S.C. Middle School softball team and helped establish the program that exists today. Bill has also served the Sequatchie Co. Food Bank and various community centers around the county. Bill currently serves on the board of directors for Next Step Resource Center.