St. Louis County, Minnesota —Former Wichita police chief Gordon Ramsay is running for sheriff in his home town of Duluth, Minnesota. He received more votes than two other candidates in Tuesday's primary election.
Ramsay earned 13,995 votes or 40 percent of the vote to 11, 454 votes or 33.1 percent of the votes for current St. Louis County’s Undersheriff, Jason Lukovsky.
Those two will face each other in the general election.
Ramsay was one of the first law enforcement officials to call the death of George Floyd a murder.
Ramsay was appointed as the Wichita Police Chief in January 2016 until he resigned in March. He has served as a police officer since 1993, according to his bio on the city web site.
He is nationally recognized for his work and expertise with citizen oversight boards, co-responders models, police-community relations, and the use of technology and crime reduction. Due to his work in these areas, Chief Ramsay was selected to serve as a Commissioner on the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Kansas Governor's Commission on Racial Equity and Justice.