BIOGRAPHY  OF SHERIFF STANLEY GLANZ 

Stanley Glanz was elected Sheriff of Tulsa County in 1988, and re-elected in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. Previously, Stanley Glanz was a Tulsa Police Officer for twenty-three years; attaining the rank of Major. During his tenure, he commanded the traffic, detective and records Divisions. While with the Tulsa Police Department, Major Glanz won the Award for Excellence twice from the American Automobile Association for his traffic safety programs. He also received the Chief's Award for his innovative reorganization of the Traffic Division.

Sheriff Stanley Glanz received a Bachelors of Science from the University of Tulsa. He received a Masters in Criminal Justice Administration from the Oklahoma City University. He is also a graduate from the Southwestern Police Academy at the Southern Methodist University. Stanley also graduated from the 97th Session of the Federal Bureau of Investigations National Academy at Quantico, Virginia. He is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar (LEEDS), and he is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma.

Sheriff Glanz was selected as Sheriff of the year in 1996 by the Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association. He was named the Sheriff of the Year in 2000 by the National Sheriffs’ Association. Stanley received the Bronze Eagle Feather Award from the Oklahoma Native American Law Enforcement Association. He was awarded the coveted Silver Beaver Award by the Boy Scouts of America for distinguished service; he currently serves on the Executive Board of the Indian Nations’ Council in the Tulsa Area.

Sheriff Glanz has served on the United Way Advisory Board and spent many years serving on the Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association’s Board of Directors. In 1989, Governor Henry Bellmon appointed Sheriff Glanz to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations Commission, a position he still holds. He currently serves on the Executive Board for the of the National Sheriffs’ Association. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Tulsa Chapter of the National Conference for Community and Justice. In 1999, Sheriff Glanz was appointed to the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, joining only eleven other law enforcement professionals on this International Commission, he now serves on the Executive Board as the Secretary. Additionally, Sheriff Glanz was an Assessor for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, as well as a Jail Auditor for the American Correctional Association. In 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft, appointed Sheriff Glanz as a member of the National Institute of Corrections’ Advisory Board.

Since being elected Sheriff, Stanley has initiated such innovative programs as the Jail Cadet Plan, which significantly improved minority employment in the Sheriff's Office. He established a very active county-wide D.A.R.E. program. He acquired government grants for a Tulsa County Gangs Intervention Team, which combines the efforts of area law enforcement, and the first such program in Oklahoma. Sheriff Glanz obtained one of only eight grants for Methamphetamine drug enforcement for Tulsa County. He has created positive programs, such as the Deputy of the Year and the Employee of the Year Award. He expanded his work force through the Reserve Deputy Program. Sheriff Glanz was instrumental in acquiring funds for the expansion of the Adult Detention Center. He was vital in the passage of a sales tax initiative in 1995 to build a 1440 bed, direct supervision jail. Sheriff Glanz worked as chairman of the Crime Prevention Committee with the National Sheriffs’ Association and Boy Scouts of America to develop the Crime Prevention Merit Badge and the Crime Prevention Award for all scouts. During Y2K, Sheriff Glanz was actively involved with the entire region at a local, state, and national level to coordinate planning and preparation, which was predicate to the events of September 11, 2001. Since then, Sheriff Glanz has been active with Homeland Security planning and coordinating, and is a member of the State of Oklahoma’s Homeland Security Region 7 Council.