Sheriff James Wilson grew up in a small east Texas town
and graduated from high school in Buna, Texas. In 1963,
he was employed by the Texas Department of Public Safety
and assigned to the greater Houston area. While there,
he served as a Driver’s License Patrolman and a Texas
Highway Patrolman before being promoted to the DPS
Criminal Intelligence Service in 1972. He served as an
Agent Investigator Sergeant and Captain.
In 1985, Wilson was
promoted to Assistant Commander of the DPS Criminal
Intelligence Service and moved to DPS Headquarters in
Austin in 1986. There, he was promoted to Commander of
the DPS Narcotic Service. In 1987, he was promoted to
the position of Assistant Chief of the DPS Criminal Law
Enforcement Division. In 1988, he was promoted to the
position of Lieutenant Colonel, the Assistant Director
of the Department of Public Safety. In 1991, he was
promoted to Colonel and became the Director of the Texas
Department of Public Safety. He stayed in that capacity
and retired from the DPS in 1996 after 33 ½ years of
service to the people of Texas.
He was elected to the
position of Sheriff by the people of Williamson County
in 2004.
Sheriff Wilson is
married to Sharon Wilson and they have three children.
He graduated from South Texas College of Law in Houston,
Texas in 1979 with a Juris Doctorate Degree and Sam
Houston State University in 1973 with a Bachelor of
Science Degree.
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