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Sheriff J.B. Smith
Sheriff J. B. Smith has continuously been elected Sheriff of Smith County since 1976 and is one of the top two longest serving Texas sheriffs out of 254 counties.  He has been elected to his ninth term of office where he manages a department of 350 personnel and approximately 1,000 prisoners.  In the past 5 years, his office has booked in over 66,000 prisoners.

He is a graduate of Tyler Junior College and The University of Texas at Tyler with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice.  He is also a graduate of the National FBI Academy.

In the past 32 years he has been responsible for working and investigating murders with 80% of those murder cases solved.  This is 20% above national average.
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