When Janis Mangum took office as sheriff of Jackson County in 2013, she was widely reported as only the second woman ever elected of the office of sheriff in Georgia.
But that changed recently, when she learned that she was actually the third female sheriff in Georgia.
In the 1940s, Josie Mae Edwards was elected sheriff of Evans County. Edwards was appointed following the death of her father who was sheriff. Then she successfully ran for the job the next term…