---
type: Person
title: "Wells, Rick"
description: "Sheriff of Manatee County"
role: "Sheriff of Manatee County"
level: "county"
branch: "executive"
state: "FL"
tenure:
  current: true
  notes: "Original title: Sheriff, Manatee County"
ids:
  person: "b05ccb2f-f1c0-42cc-8fe3-184a502f9c9b"
  office: "99654837-c93c-418a-8a5d-d39b23451a9f"
  tenure: "c9032dff-92ab-4a5c-9346-04e7f2789f95"
sources:
  - field: office
    source: "fac-directory-scrape"
  - field: tenure
    source: "fac-directory-scrape"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, county, executive, fl]
timestamp: "2026-06-20"
---

# Wells, Rick

Current Sheriff of Manatee County.

## Sources

- office: fac-directory-scrape
- tenure: fac-directory-scrape

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v2 export (2026-06-20).