At the week-long Western State Sheriffs’ Association Conference (WSSA), held the week of March 10 to 15, 2025, Kane County Sheriff Tracy Glover was one of two sheriffs awarded the Sheriff of the Year award for 2024.
Sheriff Glover functions as Co-chair of the WSSA’s Government Affairs and Public Lands committee, along with Oregon’s Hood County Sheriff Matt English. Per Glover, “The WSSA was created in 1993 because Western sheriffs felt like the National Sheriffs’ Association wasn’t really concerned with issues in the west like public lands conflicts. We’ve come a long way, we work closely with the national organization now … but that’s probably why we were selected as sheriffs of the year by the WSSA this year: our efforts working on recent legislation.” Glover elaborated on a number of issues coming from federal legislation that would limit local control over local public lands and put “onerous requirements on search and rescue on public lands, which is a particularly western concern,” citing the successes in fighting these legislations that would restrict law enforcement and search and rescue operations in rural areas near large swathes of public lands as the criteria on which he and his co-chair were selected for Sheriff of the Year.
“It’s flattering, and humbling, to get such an award,” said Glover. “It’s an honor to represent Kane County on the national level, and I would not be able to do it without a really solid crew here at my Sheriff’s Office that is very supportive and so effective at managing things in my absence.”
Owing to the seniority- based nature of the offices in the WSSA, wherein associated officials simply step up a tier in the leadership when their predecessor vacates a spot, Glover - previously the Sergeant-at-Arms - was sworn in as WSSA Vice President at this conference. This is concurrent with his service as the President of the Utah Sheriffs’ Association.
