Sheriff Mike Chapman

Sheriff - Loudoun County Sheriff's Office

Mike Chapman was elected Sheriff of Loudoun County, VA, in 2011 and took office in January 2012. He was reelected to serve his fourth term in 2023. He was selected as the National Sheriffs’ Association Ferris E. Lucas “Sheriff of the Year” in 2023. He was voted “Best Public Servant” by readers of the Loudoun Times-Mirror in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, and Favorite Public Servant in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 by readers of Loudoun Now, the two newspapers serving Loudoun County. Sheriff Chapman directs an $155M budget and operations for the largest Sheriff’s office in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which handles county-wide law enforcement, the jail, and the courts. The Sheriff’s Office employs approximately 700 sworn deputies and 200 civilian personnel. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office serves a population of 450,000 and an area of 519 square miles. During his terms in office, Sheriff Chapman expanded the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) to include both Elementary and Middle Schools (named DARE Executive of the Year), enhanced media outreach, and, through his Step Up initiative, improved service, technology, efficiency, and professionalism. Sheriff Chapman initiated Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for deputies and dispatchers in 2012 – a program that leads the region for CIT Training. With federal counterparts and other stakeholders, he addressed the rapidly growing national and local heroin and opioid problem, and more recently has become laser-focused on fentanyl related poisonings. Sheriff Chapman serves on the Board of Directors for the National Sheriffs’ Association and the DARE Law Enforcement Advisory Board . He served for five years as Vice President of Homeland Security for the Major County Sheriffs of America (MCSA) and was a two-time Chair of the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Board. Sheriff Chapman graduated from the FBI National Executive Institute (NEI) and Law Enforcement Executive Development Association (LEEDA); the US Army War College – National Security (Certificate of Leadership Development); the National Sheriffs’ Institute, the Virginia Sheriffs’ Institute (VSI), Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sheriffs’ Institute, and earned the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services’ Executive Certification and received the VSI Certification. He has had numerous articles published in professional periodicals to include The Hill, International Chiefs of Police The Police Chief, FBI LEEDA Insighter magazines, and other publications. Sheriff Chapman formerly worked for the Howard County Maryland Police Department in the Divisions of Patrol, SWAT and Criminal Investigations; and for the DEA where he directed all operations throughout the Far East, served as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge in San Francisco, CA; as DEA’s Chief of Public Affairs; as the Country Attaché for Seoul, Korea; as a Supervisor in McAllen, Texas; and in field assignments in Miami, Tampa, and Pakistan. Before his election, Sheriff Chapman worked as a Subject Matter Expert on the Global Security/Law Enforcement team with Booz Allen and Hamilton. Sheriff Chapman is married to the former Ann Rafferty, and they have six children and eleven grandchildren. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Maryland and a Master’s in Public Administration from Troy State University, Alabama.

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