William H. Adcox, MBA
Associate Vice President and Chief Security Officer
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chief of Police
University of Texas Police – Houston

With 37 years in municipal and campus policing, William H. Adcox serves as the Chief of Police of the University of Texas Police in Houston, and Associate Vice President and Chief Security Officer at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.  Chief Adcox holds an MBA degree from UTEP and is a graduate of the PERF’s Senior Management Institute for Police and the Wharton School ASIS Program for Security Executives. He is the recipient of the IACLEA’s 2013 Award for Administrative Excellence and was named by Security Magazine as one of the “Most Influential People in Security 2013.” The agency received the IHSS Foundation’s prestigious 2015 Lindberg Bell Distinguished Program Award. Nationally, Chief Adcox received the Campus Safety 2015 Director of the Year Award in Healthcare; and locally he received the Texas Police Chiefs Association’s 2015 Leadership Award.