Sheriff Election — Colbert County, Alabama
Colbert Sheriff · the arena · the Tennessee River county hires this desk in 2026 · in Tuscumbia
The 2026 oval in Tuscumbia, not in Muscle Shoals, not in Florence
This page is the arena for this office. Unique teaching for the job lives on the office twin. The county as a place is taught at Colbert County.
It is not a campaign. Names belong on the official sample ballot. No crown.
Tuscumbia hires a Sheriff who still holds West Fourth
Article V, § 138: four years. The Secretary of State 2026 page lists various county offices on the gubernatorial ballot.
- Closed primary: Tuesday, 19 May 2026 (already sat).
- Primary runoff: Tuesday, 16 June 2026 (already sat where needed).
- General: Tuesday, 3 November 2026.
- Take office: Ala. Code § 36-3-4 — Monday, 18 January 2027.
- Vacancy: Governor appointment (§ 36-9-17). Coroner acts until a successor is chosen (§ 11-5-5).
The Governor is 2026. That is not this oval. Six Commissioners sit — not this oval. A Shoals rumor does not hire this badge. Muscle Shoals is a city. Florence is Lauderdale.
Circuit Clerk on North Main, not Muscle Shoals City Hall
201 North Main Street, Tuscumbia, AL 35674. Not 107 West 4th Street. Not Muscle Shoals City Hall. Not Florence. Confirm registration, sample ballot, and absentee on sos.alabama.gov and myinfo.alabamavotes.gov.
Sample ballot in Tuscumbia — not a Shoals studio rumor
Do not take names from a recording-studio postcard or a Florence flyer.
- Official candidate list / sample ballot — Alabama Secretary of State
- Voter lookup
- Current Sheriff of record — official Colbert County Sheriff listing
If a site and the official sample ballot disagree, the sample ballot wins.
What you are hiring — Tennessee River patrol and a jail that houses men at West Fourth
You are hiring the Sheriff of Colbert County, Alabama — unincorporated patrol across the Quad-Cities remainder and the river bottoms, warrants, civil process, courthouse security, and the County Jail at 107 West 4th Street. Females are housed at Tuscumbia City Jail by arrangement — still this jailer. You are not hiring Muscle Shoals Police. You are not hiring Sheffield Police. You are not hiring the Governor.
Read the office page for West Fourth as this jailer and the Quad Cities as cities.
Remedy when a writ misses Cherokee
A bad service or a paper that missed the river bottoms — this Sheriff’s door and the courts. Six Commissioners are not the internal-affairs substitute for a paper. Not a comment section. Not Florence.
Relief when Wilson Lake comes up
A rise on the Tennessee, a wreck on U.S. 72, inland flooding on a Quad-Cities creek — this county’s mutual aid first. Lauderdale’s Florence is a different count. Lawrence is a different count. Muscle Shoals city hall is a different government.
Service — papers, a 1962 house, Quad-Cities roads that are still this county
Papers. A North Main Street courtroom. Night hours the office actually posts. 911 on an unincorporated Cherokee road remains this badge. The county jail remains this badge.
Due process does not wait for a Florence rumor
A levy in Leighton still needs notice. Confirmation of sale is still the court. The Constitution does not pause because a visitor photographed a different Shoals city.
Rights from Sheffield’s county remainder to Leighton
Equal protection on the river-and-quad-cities map. Counsel. Property. Humane custody. A worker in Muscle Shoals’s county remainder and a family in Cherokee hire the same Sheriff.