Snohomish County Sheriff Rick Bart has been elected to serve on the executive commission for the National Sheriff’s Association.
The 62-year-old association is a nonprofit group that promotes the position of elected sheriffs and professionalism and training for the position, executive director Tom Faust said.
“It’s very much an honor to be elected to the executive commission. They represent sheriffs from all over the country,” Faust said.
More than 22,000 people belong to the association, including 3,088 elected sheriffs from around the nation.
“I really believe in the office of sheriff and I want to keep it an elected position,” Bart said.
Bart has been on the association’s board of directors since 1998. He was elected to a three-year term on the executive commission in June during the association’s summer conference in Seattle.
The executive commission, made up of a dozen people, is responsible for setting the guidelines for the association, Faust said.
Bart attends a couple meetings a year for the association. He’ll add a few more with the new position, he said. He also will do more lobbying in Washington, D.C., he said.
“This is one of my priorities,” he said. “I want to stay with this.”
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