{"id":1448215,"date":"2025-10-10T05:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1448215"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:17:58","slug":"smith-county-sheriffs-office-unveils-portrait-of-f-jb-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1448215","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff\u2019s Office unveils portrait of JB Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1448216\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/jbsmith-140x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/jbsmith-140x200.jpg 140w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/jbsmith-246x350.jpg 246w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/jbsmith-768x1095.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/jbsmith-1077x1536.jpg 1077w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/jbsmith.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office honored one of their longtime leaders on Thursday by unveiling a portrait of former Sheriff JB Smith. According to our news partner KETK, Smith started his tenure as sheriff in 1976 and after more than three decades, he retired in 2013. In a ceremony attended by many members of law enforcement on Thursday, including current Sheriff Larry Smith, former Sheriff JB Smith had his portrait hung next to the portraits of those who\u2019ve held the role before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so honored to be part of something like this because I feel like I\u2019m a part of the lasting legacy of Smith County sheriffs,\u201d JB Smith said. \u201cThere\u2019s been many sheriffs over the years, and I\u2019m just one of them. But I think I\u2019ll have left a legacy and I hope it\u2019s a positive one. Smith County is probably one of the best places in the whole world to live. We are so blessed here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JB Smith is also an author, humorist, rancher, a veteran and an auctioneer. To learn more about his life, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheriffjbsmith.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sheriffjbsmith.com\/\">visit JB Smith\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office honored one of their longtime leaders on Thursday by unveiling a portrait of former Sheriff JB Smith. According to our news partner KETK, Smith started his tenure as sheriff in 1976 and after more than three decades, he retired in 2013. In a ceremony attended by many members &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1448215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sheriff\u2019s Office unveils portrait of JB Smith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1448462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/jbsmith-140x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 17:15:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/jbsmith-140x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448215"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448815,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448215\/revisions\/1448815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}