Past Sheriffs
1900s
- Melvin C. High - 2010-Present
- Michael A. Jackson - 2002-2010
- Al Black - 1994-2002
- James V. Aluisi - 1978-1994
- Don Ansel - 1970-1978
- William J. Kersey - 1966-1970
- William J. Jamieson - 1962-1966
- J. Lee Ball - 1954-1962
- Carlton G. Beall - 1950-1954
- T. Ward Martin - 1946-1950
- R. Earl Sheriff - 1938-1946
- William E Clifton - 1934-1938
- W. Curtis Hopkins - 1930-1934
- Charles S Early - 1926-1930
- John Finch - 1923-1926
- James A. Sweeney - 1921-1923
- Eli S Harrison - 1919-1921
- W. Wesley Beall - 1917-1919
- Robert F. Gates - 1915-1917
- Samuel E Sweeney - 1909-1915
- Frank P. Hurd - 1907-1909
- Vernon F. Richardson - 1863-1907
1800s
- Vernon F. Richardson - 1863-1907
- Peter G. Grimes - 1861-1863
- Daniel R. Dyer - 1860-1861
- John W Webster - 1858-1859
- Daniel R. Dyer - 1856-1858
- Thomas Osbourn - 1854-1855
- Charles S Middleton - 1852-1853
- James I. Chew - 1849-1851
- John R. Baden - 1846-1848
- Eli S Baldwin - 1843-1845
- John R. Baden - 1841-1842
- Thomas H. Edelen - 1840
- Samuel Fowler - 1839
- Thomas Baldwin - 1834-1835
- Thomas Bruce - 1831-1833
- Edward Belt - 1828-1830
- George Semmes - 1827
- Joseph Isaac - 1826
- George Semmes - 1825-1826
- Thomas Osborn - 1822-1824
- George Lanham - 1819-1821
- Joseph Isaac - 1818
- George Semmes - 1813-1817
- John Darnall - 1810-1812
- Notley Maddox - 1807-1809
- Alexius Boone - 1804-1807
- Thomas Macquill - 1802-1803
- Notley Maddox - 1798-1802
1700s & Prior
- Notley Maddox - 1798-1802
- Joseph Boone - 1796-1797
- William J. Jackson - 1794-1795
- William D. Beall - 1793
- Edward L. Wailes - 1789-1793
- Nicholas Blacklock - 1786-1789
- John Beall - 1783-1785
- Thomas Williams - 1780-1782
- Thomas Duckett - 1777-1779
- Frank Leeke - 1775-1776
- Ralph Foster - 1772-1774
- John Addison - 1769-1771
- William T. Wooten - 1765-1768
- George Scott - 1763-1765
- John Rowe - 1761-1763
- Colmore V. Beans - 1758
- Thomas Contee - 1757
- Colmore V. Beans - 1756-1757
- Edward Crabb - 1756
- William T. Wooten - 1753-1755
- John Cooke - 1750-1752
- Osborn Spriggs - 1747-1750
- Thomas Lee - 1746-1747
- John Cooke - 1744-1746
- John Hepburn - 1740-1743
- William Murdock - 1740
- Thomas Brooke - 1731-1739
- Richard Lee - 1728-1731
- Robert Tyler - 1725-1728
- Phillip Lee - 1722-1725
- Thomas Claggett - 1719-1721
- James Haddock - 1716-1719
- Thomas Claggett - 1713-1715
- Henry Bottelor - 1712-1713
- Josiah Wilson - 1702
- William Barton - 1699
- Thomas Greenfield - 1696-1699