List of Los Angeles County sheriffs

The following is a list of sheriffs who have served Los Angeles County, California:

#	Term (start)	Term (end)	Name	Notes
1	1850	1851	George T. Burrill
2	1852	1855	James R. Barton
3	1856	1856	David W. Alexander
4	1856	1856	C. E. Hale*. Charles Egbert Hale
5	1856	1856	James R. Barton
6	1857	1857	*
7	1858	1858
8	1858	1859	*
9	1860	1867	Tomas Avila Sanchez
10	1868	1871
11	1871	1875	William R. Rowland	[1]
12	1876	1877	David W. Alexander
13	1878	1879
14	1880	1882	William R. Rowland
15	1883	1884
16	1885	1886	George E. Gard
17	1887	1888
18	1889	1890
19	1890	1892
20	1893	1894
21	1895	1898	John Burr
22	1899	1902
23	1903	1906
24	1907	1914
25	1915	1921
26	1921	1932	William I. Traeger*
27	1932	1958	Eugene W. Biscailuz*
28	1959	1982	Peter J. Pitchess
29	1982	1998	Sherman Block*
30	1998	2014	Lee Baca
31	2014	2014	John Scott*
32	2014	2018	Jim McDonnell	[2]
33	2018	present	Alex Villanueva

* Appointed to fill the unexpired term of the predecessor

Killed in the line of duty

See also[]

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

References[]

External links[]

• The 150 Year History of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
• Sheriffs of Los Angeles County
• Sven Crongeyer, 2006, Six Gun Sound : The Early History of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Linden Publishing, ISBN 978-1-933502-00-7