Chronological List of SF Sheriffs 1850-presentIn the 173 year history of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department there have been 36 elected or appointed Sheriffs. From John Coffee Hays in 1850 to Paul Miyamoto in 2020.
At various times during that history there have been interim appointments, made by the mayor of San Francisco (or the Board of Supervisors), due to absenses or deaths in office. For example, in 1977 Sheriff Richard Hongisto left during his second term of office to become the police chief of Cleveland, Ohio. San Francisco Mayor George Moscone appointed Eugene Brown to complete Hongisto's term through 1979. Brown then ran for the office in the 1979 election and lost to Michael Hennessey.
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John Coffee Hays 1850-1852
Thomas P. Johnson 1852-1853
William H. Gorham 1853-1854
David Scannell 1855-1856
Charles Doane 1857-1861
John S. Ellis 1862-1864
Henry L. Davis 1864-1867
Patrick J. White 1868-1871
James Adams 1872-1873
William McKibbin 1874-1875
Matthew Nunan 1876-1879
Thomas Desmond 1880-1881
John Sedgwick 1882
Patrick Connolly 1883-1884
Peter Hopkins 1885-1886
William McMann 1887-1888
Charles S. Laumeister 1889-1892
John J. McDade 1893-1894
Richard I. Whelan 1895-1898
Henry Martin 1899
John Lackmann 1900-1904
Peter J. Curtis 1904-1906
Thomas F. O'Neil 1906-1908
Lawrence J. Dolan 1908-1910
Thomas F. Finn 1910-1911 1916-1927
Frederick Eggers 1912-1915
William J. Fitzgerald 1928-1935
Daniel C. Murphy 1936-1951
Daniel Gallagher 1952-1956
Matthew C. Carberry 1956-1972
Richard Hongisto 1972-1978
Eugene A. Brown 1978-1980
Michael Hennessey 1980-2012
Ross Mirkarimi
2012-2016
Vicki Hennessy
2016-2020
Paul Miyamoto
2020-
