Weber County Sheriff 1997-present

Sheriff Slater is a resident of Marriot-Slaterville City where he resides with his wife Pam and three children. He began his full-time law enforcement career in 1978 with the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office in Wyoming. In 1980, he accepted employment with the Weber County Sheriff's Office and has been with the county since then. He has served in a variety of positions including, patrol deputy, K-9 handler, detective, narcotics agent, training officer, and internal affairs investigator. He has also held the supervisory positions of sergeant, lieutenant, and captain. Sheriff Slater was first appointed by the Weber County Commission in March 1997, to fill the unexpired term of then sheriff, Craig Dearden. Sheriff Slater was then elected to office in 1998 and is currently serving his second four-year term, having ran unopposed in the 2002 election.

Sheriff Slater attended Weber-area schools and is an alumni of Weber High School and Weber State University. He attended the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy, the Utah Peace Officer Academy, the University of Utah Law Enforcement Executive Institute, the National Sheriff's Institute, and the FBI Command College, along with many other continuing-education classes and schools. He is an adjunct instructor at Weber State University and the Utah Peace Officers Standards and Training.

Sheriff Slater enjoys outdoor activities including fishing, site-seeing, fishing, shooting sports, fishing, and in his spare time...more fishing. Sheriff Slater also enjoys golf because it keeps a lot of other people out of the good fishing spots. NOTE: Sheriff Slater is not a "purist" when it comes to fishing and will use any method that will work.