Interview with Walker County Georgia Sheriff Steve Wilson

On this week’s show we interview Walker County Georgia Sheriff Steve Wilson.  Sheriff Wilson has held his office since January 1, 1997, and this year is seeking re-election for his eighth term as sheriff. He has been in law enforcement for 48 years.  Following a three-year stint at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC as a Fingerprint Examiner, he returned to Lafayette, Georgia and was employed with the Georgia Department of Corrections, the Lafayette, Georgia Police Department, and the Walker County Sheriff’s Office as a deputy sheriff, detective, and commander of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force before being elected sheriff.  Sheriff Wilson is very active in his community, serving as a committee member for BEAT, (Business and Education Alliance Together), as president of The Al Millard Stocking Full of Love, as a trustee on the Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes Foundation, and a member of the Blood Assurance North Georgia Advisory Board. In addition, he serves as a deacon at Oakwood Baptist Church in Chickamauga, Georgia. As a follow-up to Episode 2 with Jodi Lowery and her book about moonshiners and whitecappers and Episode 3 with Marnie Pehrson and her book, An Uncertain Justice, about the last legal hanging in Georgia, we talk to Sheriff Wilson about his own law enforcement knowledge regarding the history of moonshiners in Walker County Georgia, as well as the similarities he sees between moonshining in the past and the drug trade of today! Also, we discuss the changes he has seen in law enforcement concerns and practices in his six decades of experience. If you like what we do, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Every positive review helps new listeners find the show. Send us your questions about the books or cases we profile. Tweet them to @just1morepod with the hashtag (#) questions.  Or you can send an email to [email protected].  The Executive Producers of Just One More Question are Marc Veazey and Aleks Litts. Our Assistant Producer is Kaci High. Our music is by Da Sein.  We are your hosts, Marc Veazey and Aleks Litts, and this has been “Just One More Question.”