The Office of the Sheriff is more than 1,000 years old. From the beginning of English and Scottish law, the sheriff's office was the center of the local administration of justice. The word "reeve" meant an administrative office and the word "shire" was the equivalent of a county. Therefore, the first office title was "Shire-Reeve", which was in time, shortened to the word "Sheriff" as we know it today.

Sheriff Tom Ariss 1992 - Present	Sheriff James Collins 1986 - 1992	Sheriff Robert G. Dalton 1981 - 1986
Sheriff Roy Wallace 1969 - 1981	Sheriff Bryon Kennard 1961 - 1969	Sheriff Dick Satterthwaite 1953 - 1961
Sheriff Gerald Gounden 1945 - 1953	Sheriff William Hufford Jr. 1938 - 1945	Sheriff W.E. Graham 1937 - 1938
Sheriff William Hufford Sr. 1933 - 1937	Sheriff Howard Fulkerth 1929 - 1933	Sheriff Alfred Brant 1925 - 1929
Sheriff Morrow Bryant 1921 - 1925	Sheriff Charles Wagoner 1917 - 1921	Sheriff Waldon Gilmore 1913 - 1917
Sheriff Frank Forgy 1909 - 1913	Sheriff T.C. Patterson 1906 - 1908	Sheriff Lon Hunter 1899 - 1900
Sheriff Frank Gallaher 1897 - 1898
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Sheriff F.M. Hamilton 1892 - 1897	Sheriff Alber Bryant 1889 - 1892	Sheriff Lon Hunter 1886 - 1888
Sheriff W.M. McCain 1883 - 1886	Sheriff Jasper M. Johnston 1879 - 1883	Sheriff William H. Harlan 1875 - 1878
Sheriff John L. Ely 1871 - 1874	Sheriff Nathan V. Cleaver 1867 - 1870	Sheriff John Butler 1863 - 1866
Sheriff A.E. Stokes 1859 - 1862	Sheriff D.P. Egbert 1855 - 1858	Sheriff Charles A. Smith 1851 - 1854
Sheriff William Eulass 1847 - 1850	Sheriff Israel Woodruff 1843 - 1846	Sheriff Nathaniel Bowers 1839 - 1842
Sheriff William Russell 1835 - 1838	Sheriff John M. Huston 1831 - 1834	Sheriff Joseph Whitehill 1827 - 1830
Sheriff John Hopkins 1825 - 1826	Sheriff Coonrod Snyder 1824 - 1825	Sheriff John Hopkins 1821 - 1823
Sheriff Coonrod Snyder 1817 - 1820	Sheriff Benjamin Sayre 1814 - 1816	Sheriff George Kesling 1811 - 1813
Sheriff Samuel McCray 1809 - 1811	Sheriff Ephraim Hathaway 1805 - 1809	Sheriff George Harlan 1803 - 1805