Badge: Three Madonna Lilys, two in saltire one erect, Proper encircled by a coronet of dogwood flowers and fleurs-de-lis Or.

Assumed: United States of America 2014

Private Registration: 2nd September 2014 - Committee on Heraldry, New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Further Private Registration: 4th February 2015 - U.S. Heraldic Registry, Registration # 20150204G.

Emblazoned by Quentin Peacock.

Dr. Chad M. Krouse was born in West Virginia and holds degrees from Hampden-Sydney College, Sewanee: The University of the South, and Virginia Commonwealth University. He resides in the State of Virginia.

The arms were devised by the armiger in 2014. The main charge, the cross of Saint Chad, refers to the armiger's patron saint, St. Chad of Litchfield, and his pursuit of religious studies. The dogwood flowers (Cornus Florida) are from the state flower of Virginia. The barry wavy lines represent the waters where the armiger and his family enjoy many hours of fishing in the states of both Virginia and West Virginia.

The crest ties together the armiger's shared state connection, as the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis Cardinalis) is the state bird in both states. The Madonna lilly (Lilium Candidum) in the crest represents the armiger's devotion to Our Lady of Walsingham. Finally, the motto honours the armiger's German heritage with the sentiment of making right things in his life.