Ed Hudson Former Special Agent

Ed Hudson grew up in the rural area of northwest Florida around the communityof Walnut Hill. His youth was spent working on farms, toting bricks and blocks,making mortar for his father’s masonry business, and attending Ernest WardSchool. After graduating high school in 1976, with a class of forty-one students, Edattended Pensacola Junior College where he received an associate of science inlaw enforcement.In 1980, Ed graduated with a bachelor of arts in criminal justiceadministration from the University of West Florida and went to work with theCentury Police Department. Although small with only five police officers, hegained a lot of experience at the CPD.The year 1981 brought employment as a deputy at the Escambia CountySheriff’s Department where Ed worked patrolling the highways of northernEscambia County for the next nine years. Then in 1990, he transferred to thenarcotics unit. The experience he obtained from working high-level narcoticscases prepared him for a job as a special agent with the Florida Department ofLaw Enforcement (FDLE) starting in 1993.Working in the Pensacola region, Ed worked a variety of cases with hisfellow FDLE agents along with agents from the DEA, ATF, U.S. Customs, and SecretService. These agents were among the finest men and women he has ever known.Ed was promoted to Special Agent Supervisor in 2004, and remained in thisposition until retirement on October 1, 2014. During his time in law enforcement,Ed received numerous awards and recognition from the Escambia County Sheriff’sOffice, DEA, U.S. Secret Service, and the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the NorthernDistrict of Florida. In 2010, Ed also received the FDLE Contribution to CriminalJustice Award for his part with the Methamphetamine Law Implementation Team.Today, Ed spends his retirement gardening and fishing whenever possible.He enjoys time with his granddaughters, especially when fishing, and with friendsif they’re going fishing. He serves his community through his church, the WalnutHill Baptist Church, and as a member of the Walnut Hill Ruritan Club, anorganization that lends a hand to those in need in the community.Then he goes fishing.’