We recognize the office of Sheriff as something from the American frontier, however, the role of sheriff goes back to England where sheriffs were usually appointed by the Crown to oversee the laws of the county or shire.
The Constitutional Sheriff can be traced back to 1634 in America. Historically, the word “sheriff”, an official for an area called a shire, morphed into a contraction of “shire reeve“, then to “shrievalty”, and on to “sheriffdom” to designate the jurisdiction of a sheriff, long before the legendary Robin Hood and remains today, as Sheriff, as defined in our Constitutions.