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BIOGRAPHIES
Presenters
Shaun Ferguson
Superintendent
New Orleans Police Department
A 22-year veteran of the force, Superintendent Shaun D. Ferguson was sworn into office in January 2019 after most recently serving as the Police Commander of the Educational and Training Division, which oversees the police academy. Prior to this assignment, Superintendent Ferguson served as Police Commander of both New Orleans Police Department’s 2nd and 4th Police Districts before taking over as head of the NOPD Academy in the summer of 2018.
The New Orleans native was raised in the Lower Ninth Ward and moved to Algiers during his junior high school years. A graduate of O. Perry Walker High School in 1990, Superintendent Ferguson joined the New Orleans Police Department in December 1998. During his tenure, he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Southern University of New Orleans, where he also received a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice.
Superintendent Ferguson has remained committed to not only sustaining the NOPD reforms begun by his predecessor, but to building on those successes to lead the way in 21st century policing in America and becoming a world-class law enforcement agency that the citizens of New Orleans can be proud to call their own.
18. | Third Annual National Police Peer Intervention Executive Leadership Conference