Carla Holcroft was raised in Northwest Arkansas and has lived there all her life.
She started her law enforcement career in January of 1997 as a Dispatcher for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. She was promoted to Lead Dispatcher in 2001 rising to the rank of 911 Communications Director in February of 2012. She has over 2,000 hours of extensive specialized training.
She was directly involved in writing and teaching the Arkansas’s Basic Telecommunicator Course from 2011 through 2024 traveling around the State of Arkansas teaching dispatcher’s and loved every minute of it.
She is very passionate about her career and believes it is a calling. She wants to ensure that Arkansas 911 dispatchers are given the opportunity to excel, and they can’t do that without training.
She is currently serving as Secretary on the Arkansas Association Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) board. She is a member of the Washington County FOP Lodge #69 and has been married to Mike for 38 years who is a Washington County Deputy assigned to the Civil Division.