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Meet our Board of Directors for 2026<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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President<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Brunner (Norfolk)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1st Vice President<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitney Ray (Virginia Beach)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2nd Vice President<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Sterling (Portsmouth)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sergeant at Arms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh “Skip” Blanchard (Suffolk)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Executive Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ronnie Young (Chesapeake)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Past President<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken “Butterbean” Strickland (Portsmouth)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E.C. Harris (Suffolk)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Downing (Chesapeake)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earl Killmon (Norfolk)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Hyman (Chesapeake)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonio Wilson (Franklin)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chaplain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ralph Barbarise (Norfolk)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet our Board of Directors for 2026 President Mike Brunner (Norfolk) 1st Vice President Whitney Ray (Virginia Beach) 2nd Vice President Steve Sterling (Portsmouth) Sergeant at Arms Hugh “Skip” Blanchard (Suffolk) Executive Director Ronnie Young (Chesapeake) Past President Ken “Butterbean” Strickland (Portsmouth) Trustee E.C. Harris (Suffolk) Trustee Bob Downing (Chesapeake) Trustee Earl Killmon (Norfolk) Trustee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/policeassociationva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/policeassociationva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/policeassociationva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policeassociationva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policeassociationva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/policeassociationva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/policeassociationva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/policeassociationva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}