UT Police Chief Moving to Vanderbilt's Nashville Campus

The police chief for the University of Tennessee will be moving to Vanderbilt University.

August Washington, the police chief and assistant vice chancellor for UT, will move his experience from Knoxville to Nashville. Washington, 49 years old and a New Orleans native, has been the UTPD chief since 2005. He was the 2009 recipient for the Award for Administrative Excellence from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. Washington was chosen after a national search and brings over three decades of law enforcement experience to Vanderbilt. He has worked at six universities in a law enforcement capacity.

Washington, who will begin work on July 27th, will create relationships throughout the Nashville community, including with the Metro Nashville Police Department. When questioned by the Tennessean, Washington claimed, “My family and I are very excited about this opportunity”.

UT, while sad to have Washington moving on, wishes him the best and has claimed that the university will “benefit from his work for years to come”. Former Vanderbilt Police chief, Marlon Lynch, recently moved from Tennessee to a post at the University of Chicago.

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