Mission Statement
It is the desire of the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department to affirmatively promote, preserve and deliver a feeling of security, safety and quality services to members of our community. Each employee is required to accept the responsibility for the achievement of this mission, and to publicly register his or her commitment to it and to the concepts of quality service.
This mission represents the commitment of this administration to the concept of quality performance management. In other words, members are expected to work consistently in a quality manner in the daily performance of those duties, job responsibilities and work tasks associated with this mission. Quality manner means that performance outcomes comply with the performance standards established for this agency and for each member associated with this agency. Examples of performance standards include the oath of office, code of ethics, agency rules, policies, procedures, directives, general and supervisory orders, work productivity and performance behavior.
History
County Sheriffs' from 1850 to Present
1850-1851 William Meeker
1852-1855 Erastus Platt
1856-1857 Albert Cook
1858-1861 Samuel Smith
1862-1863 Matthew Logan
1864-1867 N.P. Callahan
1868-1871 Charles Townsend
1872-1875 John R. Davis
1876-1879 James B. Drake
1880-1883 George W. Ludwick
1884-1887 Eli B. Walker
1888-1891 Samuel O. Ewing
1892-1893 James K. Orr
1894-1898 C. F. Callahan
1899-1900 J. Howard Shields
1901-1903 James M. Thomas
1904-1910 Frank DeNormandie
1911-1912 George W. Turner
1913-1916 J. C. Umstead
1917-1918 T. E. Milliken
1919-1922 Ben Morris
1923-1926 Paul E. Lyden
1927-1928 P. J. Coril
1929-1932 Adam G. Stone
1933-1934 William J. Englehardt
1935-1948 Ralph E. Elser
1949-1960 Paul J. Langley
1961-1976 Ray T. Davis
1977-1979 Michael Yarosh
1979-1980 George D. Tablack
1981-1984 James A. Traficant
1985-1996 Edward P. Nemeth
1997-1999 Philip A. Chance
1999-2013 Randall A. Wellington
2013- Jerry Greene