Those who have served as the Hitchcock County Sheriff.

The following individuals have faithfully served as Sheriff of Hitchcock County;

• 1st -  Galen E. Baldwin
• 2nd - C. Haegens
• 3rd -  Jack Wood *
• 4th -  A.B. Young
• 5th -  R.O. Taylor
• 6th -  Thomas H. Britton
• 7th -  Benjamin A. Dennis
• 8th -  Nicholas T. Jones
• 9th -  James M. Crews
• 10th - John M. Brown
• 11th - Clark Marsh
• 12th - J. Ervin Campbell
• 13th - Lee L. Darby
• 14th - Martin N. Brennan
• 15th - William E. Crowell
• 16th - Rush P. Campbell
• 17th - Mayble M. Campbell **
• 18th - C. Lynn Campbell
• 19th - Dwight W. Cotton
• 20th - Alvin L. Porter
• 21st - A. Wayne 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 Mayble Campbell was the first woman to serve as sheriff in the State of Nebraska.