Susan L. Rahr is the current sheriff

Sheriff

A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....

 of King County, Washington

King County, Washington

King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. The population in the 2010 census was 1,931,249. King is the most populous county in Washington, and the 14th most populous in the United States....

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Rahr is the first female King County Sheriff.

Personal life

Sue Rahr was born in Wyoming, but moved to Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...

, USA when she was five. She has six brothers. She has two sons, William "Billy" Rahr and Peter Rahr and is married to Bill Rahr, a teacher at Sammamish High School in Bellevue. She graduated from Washington State University with a B.A., cum laude, in Criminal Justice.

Career in the King County Sheriff's Office

Sheriff Rahr began her career with five years on patrol at Precincts Two and Three and undercover narcotics. Following her promotion to sergeant, she supervised Precinct Four patrol and then Burglary/Larceny, Proactive, Criminal Warrants, and Special Assault Units. Six years later, she was promoted to operations captain at Precinct Three. She later served as the commander of the Internal Investigations and Gang Units, and the Special Investigations Section. She was promoted to major of Precinct Two in 1997, and was selected to be the police chief for Shoreline in 1998. She was Chief of the Sheriff's Office Field Operations Division for 4.5 years before being appointed by outgoing Sheriff Dave Reichert

Dave Reichert

David George Reichert is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served as Sheriff of King County, Washington.-Early life, education and career:...

after he was elected to Congress. Rahr was elected sheriff in her own right in November 2005.

She ran, unopposed, for re-election on November 3, 2009, and received 97.45% of the vote. Her current term will expire January 1, 2013.

External links

• King County Sheriff's Office Biography