As the Assistant Vice President & Chief of Police at the University of Virginia Police department, Tommye S. Sutton is the principal administrator in planning, directing, and managing the comprehensive law enforcement and administrative components of the department. Chief Sutton began his career at Vanderbilt University after graduating from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department police academy in Nashville, TN. He has served in increasingly responsible assignments at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. His professional passions include driving organizational change for diversity and inclusion and fostering police and community relations. He holds a bachelors degree in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, a masters degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Tennessee State University, and is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in Higher Education Administration.