The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field-from the latest research to applied best practices. We include original research reports, editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our field, reviews of the latest books, and other relevant strategies and manuscripts by educators that describe best practices in teaching and learning related to character education. The Journal of Character Education has for over a decade been the sole scholarly journal focused on research, theory, measurement, and practice of character education. This first issue of the 2020 volume of the Journal of Character Education is a guest-edited themed issue, something that has become a frequent feature of the JCE. We are grateful to Stephen Sherblom and Mindy Bier for both proposing and executing an exciting collection of scholarly and practitioner articles focusing on virtuous leadership. In fact, the response to their call-for-papers on virtuous leadership for this special issue was so successful that we anticipate filling two issues with high-quality articles. This Part 1 issue includes four empirical articles and five practitioners' voices illuminating the complex developmental dynamics of virtuous leadership across contexts.