Keir Chapple began his career with the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles as a Parole Officer in Fulton County in 2005 and was promoted to Assistant Chief Parole Officer in 2007. Chapple desired to work with crime victims after volunteering at a Victims Visitors’ Day event during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. In 2014, he transferred to the Office of Victim Services as a Program Manager to manage the state’s Victim Offender Dialogue Program, address unwanted offender communications with victims, and assist victims with restitution issues.

Chapple is a POST-Certified Instructor and a certified Crisis Intervention Team Officer and Trainer. He has completed the National Organization for Victim Assistance Advocacy (NOVA) Victim Assistance Academy and he is a credentialed victim advocate with the National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP). He is also a member of the National Association of Victim Assistance in Corrections (NAVAC), the National Organization for Victim Advocacy (NOVA), the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), the Georgia Professional Association of Community Supervision (GPACS), the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police (GACP). 

Chapple has completed the National Facilitated Dialogue Training Program Pilot and is part of the National Training Cadre. He is certified in NOVA’s Crisis Response Training, and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM). He has presented nationally on victim services at NAVAC, APPA, and the Association of Paroling Authorities International (APAI), and locally to numerous organizations.

Chapple earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology from Georgia Southern University in 2000 and a Master of Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Management in 2004.