East Tennessee State University named Cesar Gracia as chief of police and director of Public Safety. He will assume this new role on Nov. 9.
For the past five years, Gracia has served as dean of campus safety and chief of police at Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) in Harrogate where he provided leadership, direction and management for the police and security department and its programs, services and activities. In 2019, LMU was ranked the No. 1 safest campus out of 500 colleges and universities in the nation by the National Council for Home Safety and Security. He also created the LMU Clery Compliance Committee.