About Us: Sheriff Edward V. Rochford

Edward V. Rochford is serving his sixth term as Morris County Sheriff. Previously he was deputy chief of police in Morris Township where he served for twenty-seven years. During that time he received more than fifty departmental awards including being honored as “Police Officer of the Year.”

Sheriff Rochford is a graduate of the City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia and the National Sheriffs’ Institute of Longmont, Colorado. Sheriff Rochford is a graduate of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Morris Program.

Sheriff Rochford is the past President and Executive Director of the Sheriffs’ Association of New Jersey. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Dean and Betty Gallo Prostate Cancer Center at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth’s Justice Studies Program, the County College of Morris Criminal Justice Program, and the Academy for Law and Public Safety.

Sheriff Rochford is on the board of trustees of Morris Tomorrow, is a life member of the Morris County chapter of the NAACP and serves as an honorary chairman of the United Jewish Appeal of MetroWest NJ. He is a recipient of the “Good Scout” award from the Boy Scouts of America and was honored by the Morris Unit of the American Cancer Society as “Volunteer of the Year.”

Sheriff Rochford is a lifelong resident of Morris County and resides in Morris Plains with his wife Diana.