Colonel Joseph Bradshaw - Director, Legal Affairs
Colonel Joseph Bradshaw
graduated in 1976 from Florida Atlantic University, with a Bachelor's
Degree in Criminal Justice. Upon graduation, he began his law
enforcement career as a road patrol officer and later as a detective
with the Wilton Manors Police Department in Broward County, Florida
until 1980, when he became a full-time law student at Pace University
School of Law in New York. He received his Juris Doctor Degree in 1983.
Subsequent to graduation from law school, he served as an Assistant
District Attorney in New York City, spending a majority of his time
prosecuting child abuse cases in Brooklyn.
On January 1, 1986, Colonel Joseph Bradshaw
began his career with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office as a road
patrol deputy working out of District One. He was admitted to the
Florida Bar in 1987. He has served as the Legal Advisor for the
Sheriff's Office for most of his career. In 1996, he was appointed
Undersheriff, where he was second in command under former Sheriff
Charles McCutcheon. Colonel Bradshaw was President of the Florida
Association of Police Attorneys from 1994 to 1997 and was sworn in as a
member of the United States Supreme Court Bar in 2005.