Sheriff Greg Champagne

Sheriff Greg Champagne was born and raised in St. Charles Parish. He attended Hahnville High School and graduated from Nicholls State University in 1979 with  a Bachelor's Degree in Government. Upon graduation, Greg was named to the Nicholls State University Hall of Fame and subsequently as one its "Outstanding Alumni". He went on to receive his law degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in 1982. He served as an assistant district attorney in St. Charles Parish for nearly 14 years and earned a reputation as being a tough but fair prosecutor with a 94% conviction rate.

Greg Champagne was elected Sheriff of St. Charles Parish in 1995 by a large majority of the vote in the primary election. He was re-elected in 1999 without opposition and  again in 2003, when he received over 81% percent of the vote. In of 2007 Sheriff Champagne was again re-elected with over 83% of the vote.

He was selected as Louisiana Sheriff of the Year in 2003 by the Louisiana Crime Victim's Coalition.

Sheriff Champagne served as President of the Louisiana Sheriff's Association 2007-08, having been. elected by his peers, the 65 Sheriffs of Louisiana. He also serves on the National Sheriff's Association's Board of Directors and was recently appointed by the association's president to be Chairman of the NSA Legal Affairs Committee.

In addition to his formal education, Sheriff Champagne has graduated from the F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Virginia twice ; first from the  FBI's Law Institute for Prosecutors and more recently from the FBI's Law Enforcement Executive Development Program. He has attended numerous training programs during his twenty-five year law enforcement carreer. These include, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Northwestern University of Chicago's Graduate School for Prosecutors. He has also represented the National Sheriff's Association at two international counter-terrorism programs which focused on the detection and prevention of terrorism in both Israel and England.

The Sheriff also serves as a member of the Louisiana State Law Institue's Committee on Criminal Justice which reccomends changes in criminal law to the Louisiana Legislature. He is a certified P.O.S.T. instructor at the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office Training Academy. Sheriff Champagne is a member of the United States Eastern District of Louisiana Joint Terrorism Task Force Executive Board formed by the F.B.I. (New Orelans Office). He also serves on the advisory board of I.T.T. Technical college in St. Rose, Louisiana as an expert in the field of Criminal Justice. He also represents Louisiana Sheriffs, Louisiana State Police and Louisiana Chief's Of Police on the Louisiana Property and Casualty Insurance Commission. Sheriff Champagne was recently appointed by Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Kitty Kimball to represent Sheriffs on the Louisiana Supreme Court's Court Security Commission.