Administration

Sheriff Ingrid Braun

Sheriff-Coroner Ingrid Braun is the 25th Sheriff to serve the citizens and visitors of Mono County. She was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1967 and raised in La Crescenta, graduating from Crescenta Valley High School in 1985. Sheriff Braun attended the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. She began her law enforcement career with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in 1989. Sheriff Braun met her husband, Michael, also an LAPD Officer, in 1991, and they married in 1993.

Lieutenant Phil West

Undersheriff Phil West came to the Mono County Sheriff's Office in 2002. He began his law enforcement career with the Bishop Police Department in 1990 after working in private industry  beginning in 1977. Over the past years, he has worked a variety of assignments with both departments ranging from: K9 handler, Mounted Patrol Officer/Instructor, Special Entry Team member, Resident Mono County Deputy, Field Training Officer, Firearms Range Master/Instructor, Chemical Agent Instructor, Patrol Sergeant, and Assistant Chief Deputy Coroner.