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James White

CFAI Program Manager
Center for Public Safety Excellence
Reston, Virginia, United States

Jim joined the Center for Public Safety Excellence in 2023 after serving as a career firefighter for more than 35-years. His fire service career began in 1978 in Arlington, Virginia as a volunteer firefighter, and then as a career firefighter in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, before moving to central Florida in 1992, Jim’s final assignment was as fire chief of the Winter Park Fire Rescue Department where he served for his last sixteen years. Jim is a 30-year member of the Florida Fire Chiefs Association and the International Association of Fire Chiefs. In 2014, He was awarded the Fire Chief of the Year by the FFCA where he remains on the Executive Board as Chairperson of the Florida Fire Chief’s Charitable Foundation.

Jim’s involvement with Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI) began in 1997 when he served as a peer assessor, peer team leader, and program instructor. Jim has continued throughout his fire service career to contribute to the accreditation process in numerous ways and was recognized in 2015 with the Ronny Jack Coleman Leadership Legacy Award for his support of the CPC credentialing process within his agency. In 2018, Jim served as the Director of the Fire Rescue Institute at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida.

Jim is credentialed as a Chief Fire Office (CFO) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from Flagler College. He is a graduate of the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officer Program where he also served as an on-campus instructor and a subject matter expert in the Community Risk Reduction and Data Analysis program.

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