Education
Stolle graduated from Frank West. Cox High School in Virginia Beach in 1972. He then attended Berry College, getting an Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Surgery degree in Criminal Justice in 1975.
Stolle graduated from Frank West. Cox High School in Virginia Beach in 1972. He then attended Berry College, getting an Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Surgery degree in Criminal Justice in 1975.
He represented the 8th district in Virginia Beach. Stolle is currently the sheriff of Virginia Beach. Stolle"s father was in the United States Navy.
Stolle served as an officer with the Virginia Beach Police Department from 1976 to 1987.
Among other duties, he was a narcotics detective and Special Weapons And Tactics team leader. He read law while on the police force and was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1983.
The same year, he was commissioned in the United States Naval Reserve. He served eight years in Naval Intelligence on drug interdiction matters.
Stolle left police work to become a full-time attorney in 1987.
He currently practices with the Kaufman and Canoles law firm in Virginia Beach. Stolle became chair of the local Republican committee in Virginia Beach in 1989. In 1991, he was elected to the state senate, defeating Democratic incumbent Moody East. "Sonny" Stallings, a Virginia Beach lawyer
He was unopposed for reelection in 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007.
Stolle was chair of the Senate Courts of Justice committee 2000-2007. In 2007 Stolle"s younger brother, Chris Stolle, ran for the 83rd district Virginia House of Delegates seat of retiring Republican Leo Wardrup.
He was defeated by Democrat Joe Bouchard, 50.6% to 49.2%. On April 3, 2009, Stolle announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Virginia Beach, after incumbent Paul Lanteigne announced his retirement.
Stolle also made public the fact that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson"s disease about three years earlier.
He was a member of the Senate of Virginia from 1992 to 2010.