EVANSVILLE — Don’t rule out Dave Wedding — yeah, the same Dave Wedding who was Vanderburgh County’s sheriff for eight years — as a candidate for the office again.
Wedding, whose law enforcement career spanned more than four decades, hasn’t sought elected office since 2018. That year, he won re-election to a second term as a Democrat without opposition. Wedding, now a Republican, was constitutionally limited to two consecutive terms as sheriff — so he wasn’t on the ballot in 2022. But the Indiana Constitution notes that “no person shall be eligible to the office of … Sheriff … more than eight years in any period of 12 years.”
So, even though the 64-year-old Wedding hasn’t committed to running in 2026, he could do so if he wanted.
Wedding reported raising more than $28,000 for his campaign account last year, primarily via his annual golf fundraiser. The former sheriff’s required year-end campaign finance report asked, as they all do, a pertinent question: “Office sought.” His handwritten answer: “Vanderburgh Sheriff.”