The popular FOL Speaker Series returns to the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library on Tuesday, Sept. 17. Nat Glover, elected Florida’s first Black sheriff since Reconstruction, will discuss his memoir, “Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South.”
Glover joined Jacksonville’s police department in 1966. He was named Police Officer of the Year four times, was promoted to detective, rose to sergeant and was appointed the city’s first hostage negotiator. In 1995, Duval County voters elected him sheriff. He went on to run as a mayoral candidate in 2003 and later served as the 29th president of his alma mater, Edward Waters University.
Glover was twice nominated for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Male President of the Year, and the school’s stadium is named the Nathaniel Glover Community Field and Stadium. He received a “Great Floridian” designation in 2016 for his dedication to law enforcement, higher education and the city of Jacksonville. He was inducted into the Florida Law Enforcement Officer’s Hall of Fame in 2021.
“Striving for Justice” will be available for sale, and proceeds will help fund scholarships for need-based students through the “Where They Will Shine Scholarship Fund.”
The program is free and open to the public. The doors to the FOL Community Room open at 6 p.m. and the program begins at 6:30 p.m.
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Former Duval County Sheriff Nat Glover
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“Striving For Justice” by Nat Glover is a memoir of Florida’s first Black sheriff
