{"id":2281,"date":"2026-02-14T05:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/?page_id=2281"},"modified":"2026-02-14T05:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:57:15","slug":"william-shackelford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/meetings-events\/events\/archived-events\/vfn-conference-2026\/speakers\/william-shackelford\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shackelford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Shackelford, NARFE National President<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Shackelford is the National President of NARFE, the largest federal employee and retiree organization dedicated to protecting the earned rights and benefits of America\u2019s active and retired federal workers.<br>\nHe served with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for more than 34 years, retiring in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Shackelford has extensive NARFE experience. He has been the president and first and second vice president of the Virginia Federation and has served as the service officer, newsletter editor, vice president and president of Fairfax Chapter 0737.<\/p>\n<p>Shackelford holds a Bachelor of Science degree in judicial administration from American University and an associate degree in law enforcement science from Northern Virginia Community College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shackelford \u2014 NARFE National President will address conference attendees, providing updates on national initiatives, advocacy priorities, and the future direction of NARFE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2284,"parent":2214,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2281","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2281\/revisions\/2285"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}