Michael Griffin has been the Chief of the Oldham County Police Department since January 6, 2003, having been appointed to that position by former Oldham County Judge-Executive Mary Ellen Kinser.  He was reappointed to that position on January 1, 2007, by current Judge-Executive Duane Murner. 

Chief Griffin grew up in New England in a small New Hampshire town of 924 people.   His father was also the local “town cop” for nine years, becoming known as a man who would help those who had no where else to turn. 

After 4 ½  years of service in the Coast Guard, Griffin attended Western Montana College on a basketball scholarship, where he obtained his undergraduate degree in English in 1968 and his Master’s Degree in Education in 1969.  After college, Griffin taught school and coached in Montana for two-and-a-half years before becoming a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

His FBI career moved him around the country to include offices in Sacramento and Modesto, California, Phoenix, Arizona, Washington D.C., and finally to Louisville, Kentucky.  Griffin retired from the FBI in 1992, completing twenty-two years of service, seventeen of those as a Supervisory Special Agent.

In late 2002, Griffin received a telephone call asking him if he would be interested in interviewing for the Chief’s position at the Oldham County Police Department.  He accepted that interview and became the agency’s sixth person to hold the position of Chief and 61^st officer to take the oath of office in January of 2003. Chief Griffin has been married for 45 years and two of his three sons are in law enforcement.