Warren Cleage Evans was born on December 30,1948 and is an American law enforcement official, lawyer, and politician serving as the county executive of Wayne County, Michigan since 2015.
12 Facts About Warren Evans
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Warren Evans was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2009 Detroit mayoral special election.
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Warren Evans began his career in law enforcement as a deputy with the Wayne County Sheriff's Department in 1970.
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Warren Evans rose through the ranks of the department, serving as Undersheriff, the department's second-in-command officer from 1987 through 1991.
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Warren Evans became the director of administration for the Wayne County Board of Commissioners in 1991 and created the Wayne County Department of Community Justice and served as its director from 1992 to 1997.
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Warren Evans rejoined county government in 2001 as chief of Special Operations for the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office in 2001 and was named sheriff in 2003 and was elected to full terms in 2004 and 2008.
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On July 6,2009, Warren Evans was named as the 39th Chief of Police of the Detroit Police Department by Mayor Dave Bing, replacing James Barren, who Bing had fired the previous Friday.
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Warren Evans was asked to resign by Bing just over a year into his tenure in July 2010.
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Warren Evans ran for mayor of Detroit in the February 2009 special election caused by the resignation of Kwame Kilpatrick in September 2008.
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Warren Evans announced in April 2014 that he was going to seek the Democratic nomination for Wayne County Executive, challenging 3-term incumbent Robert Ficano.
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Warren Evans easily won the Democratic primary in August 2014, taking 46 percent of the vote in a ten-person field.
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Warren Evans defeated Republican nominee John Dalton in the general election.