The following individuals have faithfully served as Sheriff of Hitchcock County;
- 1st G. E. Baldwin
- 2nd C. Haegens
- 3rd Jack Wood *
- 4th A.B. Young
- 5th R.O. Taylor
- 6th T.W. Britton
- 7th B.A. Dennis
- 8th N.T. Jones
- 9th J.M. Crews
- 10th John M. Brown
- 11th Clark Marsh
- 12th J. Erwin Campbell
- 13th L. Lee Darby
- 14th Martin N. Brennan
- 15th W.E. Crowell
- 16th Rush Campbell
- 17th Maybelle Campbell **
- 18th Lynn Campbell
- 19th Dwight W. Cotton
- 20th Al Porter
- 21st Wayne"Pug" Hovey
- 22nd Merle L. Taylor
- 23rd Richard D. League
- 24th Cecil J. Norman
- 25th Richard R. Adams
- 26th Ronald E. Daugherty
- 27th William W. Cemer
- 28th D. Bryan Leggott January 6, 1987 to the present.
* Sheriff Jack Wood is the only Hitchcock County Sheriff that has died in the line of duty. He was killed by a pistol shot while trying to arrest a horse thief in Minden, Nebraska on October 16, 1882.
** Sheriff Maybelle Campbell was the first woman to serve as sheriff in the State of Nebraska.
