L. Angela Webb (L. A.) was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but grew up in Los Angeles, California.  L. Angela Webb is a 1985 graduate of Morningside High School in Inglewood, CA.  Immediately after graduation, she moved to Memphis.  L. Angela Webb’s professional career began in 1986 when the Memphis Police Departments employed her as a Police Service Technician.  After completing her training, she became a sworn police officer in 1989. 

While employed with the Memphis Police Department, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Psychology from Christian Brothers University, graduating with the honor of Magna Cum Laude (2001).  She continued her education at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.  She graduated with honors and received her Masters of Science degree in Operations Management with a certification in Human Resource Administration (2004). During her tenure with the Memphis Police Department, L. Angela Webb received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Individual Administrative Award of Excellence from the mayor of the City of Memphis for her work on streamlineing the police employment process.

L. Angela Webb worked diligently to increase her knowledge and experience with the Memphis Police Department, so she worked in uniform patrol, where she was a specially trained as a Crisis Intervention Officer and Field Training Officer.  Throughout her career, she also worked in Community Oriented Police department, the Organized Crime Unit, the Special Traffic Investigation Bureau, the Felony Response Unit, the Robbery Bureau, the Homicide Bureau, and at the Memphis Police Training Academy as the Employment Coordinator and Training Instructor.  L. Angela Webb retired from the Memphis Police Department in 2015, after providing almost twenty-nine years of service to the citizens of Memphis. She retired at the rank of Major in her last assignment as the evening shift commander of the North Main Station. 

L. Angela Webb is currently employed at Southwest TN Community College, where she serves as the first female Director of Police Services/Public Safety. She is responsible for campus safety and security for the two main campuses and the three satellite centers. She manages a small police force of forty-three sworn law enforcement officers, three dispatchers, and five campus safety technicians. L. Angela Webb received the Vice President’s Award for Excellence in 2018 and 2019.  In 2019, L. Angela Webb led her department and college to earn the national award for Safety Planning and Leadership from the American Association of Community Colleges.

 L. Angela Webb is very engaged in her community and has spent countless hours volunteering her time by serving as a mentor in varying capacities.  She volunteered her time to the Young Ladies of Chastity, where she mentored teenage girls between the ages of twelve and seventeen.   She mentored to our heroes in the We Are Not Alone Police Women’s Cancer Support Group.  She currently serves as a Southwest Mentors Advancing Retention, Teamwork, and Success Mentor (SMARTS), which provides a supportive relationship between students and staff at Southwest TN Community College.  She served as a member of the Juvenile Court’s Foster Care Review Board and as a committee member of the Juvenile Detention Assessment Initiative. 

L. Angela Webb is a 2013 graduate of the City of Memphis’ Emerging Leaders Program and is a 2017 graduate of the Leadership Memphis Fast Track program.  In her spare time, if ever she has any, she enjoys traveling and high energy, adrenaline-filled activities.

L. Angela Webb is also a very dynamic member of the Memphis Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.  The chapter has 600 active members.  She is held in high esteem, considered an exemplary, motivational leader, was awarded the 2017 Delta of The Year award and the 2017 Regional Alumnae Member of the Year award, for her hard work and dedication.  During the 2018-2020 biennium, L. Angela Webb served as the chapter’s Second Vice President in charge of membership services and retention.  In June of 2020, L. Angela Webb was elected to serve as the chapter’s First Vice President managing the chapter’s Program, Planning, and Development.

In 2018, L. Angela Webb established Webb Solutions Training and Consulting business. A highly dedicated and motivated training company with experience in training small and large groups across multiple diverse industries. She provides customized, cost-efficient, quality training designed to accelerate individual and organizational productivity.  Through innovative designing, developing, and delivering successful training programs, she will inspire, inform, and empower the members of your organization to reach their full potential.  Webb Solutions has the efficacy to promote your group through our proven track record of success. We are adept at organizing and facilitating management, leadership, team building, and law enforcement programs, training sessions, and activities.

L. Angela Webb (L. A.) lives by the tenets that sharing knowledge is powerful and therefore, she encourages, facilitates, and extends learning as an experience.   

Chief Chris Magnus started his public safety career as a dispatcher with the City of Lansing, Michigan. He was also a paramedic in the mid-Michigan area for close to a decade. During that time, he made the transition to police officer. One of first policing jobs was with the Livingston County (Michigan) Sheriff’s Department as a deputy sheriff. He then became a police officer with the Lansing Police Department where he spent the next 15 years of his law enforcement career.

In 1999, Chief Magnus became the police chief in Fargo, North Dakota, where he played a key role in implementing the first two-state regional dispatch system in the nation, a forensic children’s interview center, and a refugee liaison program for the area’s many new immigrants and refugees. In 2006, Chris Magnus was selected as police chief for Richmond, California—a highly diverse, urban community of 115,000 residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. He served as chief for 10 years. In Richmond he strengthened ties between the police and the community and worked with others to dramatically reduce what had been historically high levels of crime. Chief Magnus also implemented numerous reforms within the police department.

Chris Magnus was appointed to be the police chief for the City of Tucson, Arizona in January of 2016. In this position, he reorganized the agency to better meet community needs, implemented a deflection program for persons with small amounts of illegal drugs, developed a sentinel event review process for major incidents, and led a nationally recognized program for dealing with people in mental health crisis.
In 2015, Magnus testified before the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing on best practice models of community policing. The chief also serves as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice, working closely with both the Civil Rights Division and the COPS Office on policing issues in various cities around the country.

Chief Magnus has a Master’s degree in Labor Relations and a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. He attended the “Senior Executives in State & Local Government” program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Tyrone A. Parham was named to the position of the Assistant Vice Chancellor/Chief of Police at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in January 2016. He oversees 62 sworn officers on a large and complex residential college campus consisting of over 30,000 students. Between 2011 - 2016, Parham served as Chief of Police at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, where he led a 51 sworn department on a large college campus with over 47, 000 students. Parham joined the Penn State University Police Department in 1989 as a student security officer. In 1993 he was hired as a patrol officer and rose through the ranks, holding the positions of detective, lieutenant, assistant chief and deputy chief before his appointment as chief. Parham holds a Bachelor's Degree in Crime, Law, & Justice and a Master's Degree in Workforce Education & Development, both from the Pennsylvania State University. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy Class # 244 and PERF's Senior Management Institute for Police Class #68.

Chief Brian Seastone began his law enforcement career with the Boulder (Colorado) Police Department in 1972 as a high school police "cadet." In 1974, while in his senior year of high school, the Boulder County Sheriff hired him to manage the evidence/property room. After graduating from Boulder High School, Seastone received extensive training in crime scene investigation and became the Boulder County Sheriff Department's major crime scene processor. In 1978, Seastone received his law enforcement commission and continued to work in the Detective Bureau until his move to Tucson in 1980.

Seastone joined UAPD in October 1980 and attended the Tucson Police Department Training Academy, where he graduated as the honor cadet. During his career at UAPD, he has served in all divisions and capacities within the department. Additionally, Seastone held the position of the department's Accreditation Manager from 1990-2000, managed the department's first three accreditation processes, and served as UAPD's Public Information Officer for many years.

Chief Seastone was named the UA’s first Manager of Emergency Preparedness in 2005, a position he still holds in addition to being the Chief of Police.

Chief Seastone was sworn in as the University’s Police Chief on March 1, 2014. Chief Seastone is a graduate of the 213th session of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy. He has a Master of Education degree in Education and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management. Chief Seastone is the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions from UAPD, the University of Arizona, and other state and national organizations.

Chris serves as the Associate Vice President for Law Enforcement and Safety for the University of South Carolina. His responsibilities include providing senior executive leadership and oversight of all law enforcement, emergency management, physical security, threat assessment and management, laboratory safety, environmental safety, fire safety, industrial hygiene, hazardous waste, occupational safety, and enterprise risk management and insurance services functions at the University’s flagship campus in Columbia.

As Chief of the University of South Carolina – Columbia Police Department, Chris leads a team of 108 law enforcement employees, including 78 sworn law enforcement officers with statewide arrest authority to protect an ethnically and socially diverse community composed of over 40,000 students, faculty, and staff.

Over more than 20 years, Chris has served through the ranks of the University’s police department beginning as a graduate student intern, before successive appointments including but not limited to: patrol officer, investigator, physical security, CALEA accreditation manager, and associate director. In 2010 Chris was selected as the Chief of Police. As Chief Chris has been instrumental in leading his Division and the University though several critical incidents and emergencies. Under Chris’ leadership the Division has expanded its services operations and staffing by over fifty percent.

Chris holds both a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree from the University of South Carolina. He is a board certified Public Manager, and Certified Protection Professional. Chris is also an alumnus of the F.B.I National Academy (213), the Police Executive Research Forum Senior Management Institute for Police (52), the South Carolina Narcotics Commander School, the FBI Carolina Command College, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Crisis Leadership in Higher Education, Senior Executives in State and Local Government, and Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies.