The Boone County Sheriff's Office has a rich history in the office of the Sheriff, dating back to 1847.  Below you will find photographs of most of our past sheriffs.  If you have any information to add to any of theses gentleman or if you have any of our photographs we are missing, please let us know.

John Hill   1847 - 1848

Isom Adkins   1849-1850

John Hill   1853 - 1854

St. Clair Ballard   1855 - 1856

Robert Chambers   1857 - 1858

William Thompson Sr.   1859-1860

 William Thompson Jr.   1861 - 1862

William Van Buren Bias   1865 - 1866

Evermont R. Bias   1867 - 1868

John W. Mahan   1869 - 1870

 Adam Coon   1871 - 1872

Joseph Atkins   1873 - 1876 

 Mandeville J. Hopkins   1877 - 1880

William Taylor Smoot   1889 - 1892

Daniel P. Elkins   1885 - 1888

 William Taylor Smoot   1889 - 1892

 James D. Price   1893 - 1896

 Ernest "Douten" Stollings   1897 - 1900

 Julian Hill   1901 - 1904

Ernest "Douten" Stollings   1905 - 1908

 Sidney White   1909 - 1912

Walter Smoot   1913 - 1916

John Lee Hill   1917 - 1920

 Victor N. Griffith   1921 - 1924

Irving Sutphin   1925 - 1928

C. Clarence Hopkins   1929 - 1932

 John K. Myers   1933 - 1936

Dell White   1937 - 1940

 Tilden Hendricks   1941 - 1944

 William Dingess   1945 - 1948

Tilden Hendricks   1949 - 1952

 Troy W. Jarrell   1953 - 1956

 Dell  White   1957 - 1960

Earl Miller   1961 - 1964

John Protan   1965 - 1968

Edward Cooke   1969 - 1972

John Protan   1973 - 1980

Vernon F. Harless   1981 - 1988

Jennings Miller   1989 - 1996

Randall K. Blethen   1997 - 2004

Rodney A. Miller   2005 - 2012

William "Randall" White   2013 - Present