Bobby Franklin Kimbrough, Jr.

Incumbent Forsyth County Sheriff in Clemmons, North Carolina

Bobby Franklin Kimbrough, Jr. is a candidate for Forsyth County Sheriff in Forsyth County, North Carolina — 2026 Primary Election. Running as Democratic Party.

Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr. is the first African-American Sheriff of Forsyth County, first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. He has over four decades of law enforcement experience, beginning his career in 1984 with the Winston-Salem Police Department. He later served as an Arson Investigator for the Winston-Salem Fire Department, worked with high-risk offenders for the N.C. Department of Probation and Parole, and was a Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from 1995 to 2016. Kimbrough holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from High Point University, a Master's degree in Leadership from Piedmont International University (now Carolina University), and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Carolina University. He has also completed leadership courses at Harvard University.

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