Carl R. Peed

Carl Ray Peed was the Sheriff of Fairfax County from 1990 to 1999.

Peed was hired as a corporal in 1974 by Sheriff James D. Swinson, his father-in-law. He became chief deputy in 1979 with the election of M. Wayne Huggins.

After Huggins joined the Bush administration as Director of the National Institute of Corrections, Peed was himself named Sheriff on March 7, 1990 by a panel of Circuit Court judges. In a special election on November 6, 1990, Peed defeated challengers Richard Singleton and Clarence A. Robinson, Sr..