Those who have served as the Hitchcock County Sheriff.

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 William W. Cemer
• 27th Ronald E. Daugherty
• 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.