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Summer Pearrow
Adjunct Professor for Criminal Justice Online and Graduate Programs
Office: Remote
Email: summer.pearrow@newberry.edu
Degrees:
M.S. | Grand Canyon University (2018)
B.A. | Olivet Nazarene University (2011)
Bio:
Summer L. Pearrow is a Law Enforcement Agent with the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services where she is a Risk Management Training Specialist within the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). In this role, she examines policy and risk mitigation for the Agency and the effects to the Agents and stakeholders. She also helps to instruct and conduct training within the Department for their various training needs. Prior to her role with PPP, she was a deputy and training instructor with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, and recipient of the 2021 Professional Standard’s Deputy of the Year, for over 5 years where her various roles included answering crisis calls on the CIT team, assisting different regions with their call volumes, working in investigations and ICAC, teaching legals to new hires (as well as Taser, Stop-Stick, O.C., and several other classes she developed), and handling the agency’s therapy K-9 (K9 Leona). She is also BID instructor certified through the SCCJA, as well as a firearms instructor with the NRA, and an instructor for the American Heart Association’s CPR/AED/First Aid program, as well as numerous other law enforcement certifications. She is bilingual and serves as a Spanish interpreter/translator for her agency as well as any agency that may need her services. She received her Master of Science in Forensic Psychology from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, and is currently in the dissertation phase of her Ph.D. in Law Enforcement through Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia where she will defend her research entitled The Effectiveness of the Crisis Intervention Co-Responder Model of the Richland County Sheriff’s Department. She will begin her second master’s in clinical counseling this fall.
