Mr. Peed served with the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia for more than 20 years. He began working in the Office of the Sheriff in 1974. Peed was elected Sheriff in 1990, and was twice again elected to the position between 1990 and 1999. In 2000, Peed was nominated to serve as the Director of the Department of Juvenile Justice in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where he managed 2,700 employees and a $237 million budget. On September 4, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed Peed to be the Executive Director of COPS.
