Sheriff of Harris County
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez was elected on November 8, 2016 as the Sheriff of Harris County, where he leads upwards of 5,000 employees to protect the County’s 4.5 million residents. Immediately upon taking office as sheriff in 2017, Gonzalez created the Office of Mental Health Policy and Jail Diversion Projects and tasked it with taking an aggressive, innovative approach to addressing the mental health crisis in the state’s largest county jail. Sheriff Gonzalez holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Houston Downtown, and a master’s degree from the University of St. Thomas.
