Thursday, July 29, 2010
Turner to seek GOP nod for sheriff
Steve Turner joined the former Roanoke County Sheriff's Department in 1977.
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From The Roanoke Times
Roanoke County police Lt. Steve Turner will formally announce his Republican candidacy for sheriff Friday.
Turner is the third announced candidate for November's special election to fill the office vacated by longtime county Sheriff Gerald Holt, who stepped down March 1 to become United States marshal for Western District of Virginia.
Holt's chief deputy, Mike Winston, was appointed to fill the unexpired term and has already received the Democratic nomination. Independent Mike Stovall, currently chairman of the county's school board, also is seeking the $97,000-a-year office.
The Republican nomination is scheduled to be decided at a mass meeting Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. at Friendship Retirement Community on Hershberger Road.
According to his resume, Turner was born into a military family at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio in 1953. His family moved to Roanoke County when he was 13 and he has lived in the county most of his life.
A 1972 graduate of Andrew Lewis High School, Turner enlisted in the Army the next year and served a tour as a military policeman at Fort Bragg, N.C., and in South Korea.
In 1977, he joined the Roanoke County Sheriff's Department as a deputy, rising to become a lieutenant in 1989. When law enforcement duties were shifted to the newly created county police department in 1990, he transferred to it.
Turner has supervised patrol officers as well as civilian employees of the emergency communications center.
He has degrees from Virginia Western Community College and Radford University. He and his wife live in the Hollins area and have two daughters in college.
