LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

Soon, Deputy Mayor David James will be Sheriff James.

In taking this role as interim sheriff, he becomes the first Black sheriff in Jefferson County history.

"This is a milestone, but it's not mine," James said during a news conference on Friday. "It belongs to the generations who paved the way before me for greater inclusion and fairness in public service."

James is a retired Louisville Police Department and Louisville Metro Police Department officer, Kentucky Bureau of Investigations director, head of the University of Louisville Police Department, and former Metro Council president.

It's this experience that the president of Deputy Sheriff's Lodge 25, Deputy Det. Todd Jensen said is important.

"Sheriff Aubrey brought this agency kind of out of the dark ages and i

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