Today's article is from the museum's file cabinet. There wasn't an author or a date on the information. I estimate it was written in the mid-1980s. If anyone has additional information about the various judges and their dates of service, please let me know so I can update the information. Enjoy!

O.R. Hooper was county judge at the time the courthouse records were destroyed in a fire in 1882. I do not have a list of any county judges prior to that date.
J.M. Lucky 1885-1890
W.T. Riggs 1891-1892
R.L. Parker 1893-1894
Tom C. Davis 1895 (resigned)
Drury Field 1893-1896
J.W. Stephenson 1897-1900
J.T. McLamore 1901-1902
J.M. Sanders 1903-1906
W.D. White 1907-1910
Edgar W. Hooper 1911-1914
Hoya B. Short 1915-1916 (died in office)
T.H. Postell 1916-1918
J.L. King 1919-1920
John B. Burns 1921
D.R. Taylor 1922—1924
F.C. Powell 1925-1930
Clarence Samford 1931-1938
Robert Emmett Burns 1939-1942
Dudley Davis 1943-1946
Allphin Hughes 1947-1950
Ozroe Bush 1951-1954
John W. Creech 1955-1958
Harold Robertson 1959-1962
John W. Creech 1963-1965 (died in office)
Mrs. John W. Creech 1965-1966
V.V. Pate 1967-1974
Paul Carlisle 1975-1978
Johnie Johnson 1979-1986
Glendon Jackson
1987-1990
Floyd A. Watson 1991-2007
John Tomlin 2007-2009 (Died in office)
Rick Campbell 2009-2014 (Was appointed Judge at the death of John Tomlin, then was elected in 2010
Allison Harbison 2015-Present

I have a list of Sheriffs for Shelby County, but I am not sure of the dates. If anyone has a list of sheriffs with their date of service, please let me know so I can update the information.

Alfred George was the early day Sheriff of Shelby County. All the sheriffs were housed in Shelbyville, the county seat, until 1866 when records were taken from Shelbyville in the middle of the night. R.L. Parker had established the new county seat 7 miles northwest of Shelbyville.  The county seat town was named Center because it was supposedly the county's center.

William Watson, Amon Lewallen, J.M. Smith, George Samford, Zachariah Tamplin (resigned) , Ahira Butler, Jackson J. Straw, James Hanks, John B. Ross, James Yarborough, A.W. Brown (resigned),  George W. Weaver, Joel P. Wheeler, John B. Ross, A.W. Brown, B.A. Sims, L.M. Garrett, B.J. Pearce, B.A. Sims, Zack Booth, B.T. Sims, John Burns, Sam H. Truitt, Jim T. Swanzy, J.N. Smith, H.E. Holt, Harry H. Burns, Jim O’Banion (died in office), Mrs. Jim 0’Banion, Jesse Bryon Sample, Zac Brittain, Dick Middleton, Tommy Sample (son of Jesse B. Sample and died in office), Earl Adams, Charlie B. Christian, Leon Shillings, Maxie Eaves, Ben Samford (resigned), Paul Ross, Carl Shofner, Newton Johnon, Willis Blackwell, Kevin Windham (present).