Mike Chitwood

Chitwood's record is measured in elections and command posts rather than trophies. He won the Volusia County sheriff's race in 2016 and defended the office in 2020 and 2024, a three-for-three run in a county of more than half a million people. Before that he led two police departments, including a decade at the head of Daytona Beach's force.His 2001 graduation from the FBI National Academy places him in a selective cohort of law enforcement executives, and the Justice Department's COPS Office featured him in its The Beat podcast in January 2022. The honors that matter most in his line of work are appointment and re-election, and he has collected both repeatedly.