Jeff Roorda

Jeff Roorda is a public figure from St. Louis, Missouri. Roorda retired from a 17 year career in law enforcement after being elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2004. Roorda was term-limited in January of 2015 after serving four terms in Missouri House. Since 2011, Roorda has been the union business manager and spokesman for the St. Louis Police Officers Association. That role along with his role as spokesman for the Shield of Hope, a police charity that raised over $300,000 for the legal defense of Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, put Roorda in the National spotlight appearing on nearly 50 nationally broadcast news programs where he weighed in on the Ferguson Riots, the Wilson grand jury decision, the Eric Garner case, and other police stories. Roorda is a regular commentator on locally televised news programs in St. Louis and he has done extensive work as an actor in television commercials.