Okeechobee County Commissioners serve four-year terms.  Although Commissioners must reside in the districts they represent, they are chosen by a county-wide vote.  The five-member board is chosen in two cycles, staggered by two years, with Districts 1, 3 and 5 running in one cycle and Districts 2 and 4 in the other.  Okeechobee County was incorporated in 1917, with the first elected Board comprised in 1919.

The following people are currently serving as your Commissioners for Okeechobee County:

District 1:    David Hazellief          Elected:  Nov. 2020      Term Expires:  Nov. 2024 -  Chair
District 2:    Frank DeCarlo            Elected:  Nov. 2022      Term Expires:  Nov. 2026 - 2nd Vice Chair
District 3:    Brad Goodbread        Elected:  Nov. 2020      Term Expires:  Nov. 2024 - 1st Vice Chair 
District 4:    Kelly Owens               Elected:  Nov. 2020      Term Expires:  Nov. 2024 
District 5:    Terry W. Burroughs   Elected:  Nov. 2022      Term Expires:  Nov. 2026 

The following list represents a chronological list of all those who have served as an Okeechobee County Commissioner since its incorporation in 1917:

• 2022-2024
  David Hazellief  
  Frank DeCarlo - elected November 2022 - filled Bryant Culpepper's District 2 seat
  Bradley G. Goodbread 
  Kelly Owens 
  Terry W. Burroughs - re-elected November 2022
   
• 2020-2022
  David Hazellief  - re-elected November 2020
  Bryant Culpepper - resigned April 2020
  Bradley G. Goodbread - re-elected November 2020
  Kelly Owens - re-elected November 2020
  Terry W. Burroughs
  
  
• 2018 - 2020
  David Hazellief 
  Bryant Culpepper - reelected November 2018
  Bradley G. Goodbread
  Kelly Owens
  Terry W. Burroughs - reelected November 2018

•  2016 - 2018:
  Terry W. Burroughs
  David Hazellief - elected November 2016
  Bradley G. Goodbread - elected November 2016
  Bryant Culpepper
  Kelly Owens - elected November 2016

• 2014 - 2016:
  Terry W. Burroughs
  Frank Irby
  Margaret Helton
  Bryant Culpepper
  Vacant Seat due to death of Ray R. Domer -  (Governor did not appoint replacement)
     
• 2012 - 2014:
  Frank Irby
  Ray R. Domer - died August 17, 2014
  Joey Hoover
  Margaret Helton
  Bryant Culpepper

• 2010 - 2012:    (Note: as of 2012 all 5 Board Members are Republican)
  Ray R. Domer
  Bryant H. Culpepper
  Joey Hoover
  Margaret Garrard Helton
  Cliff Betts, Jr.  -  died March 29, 2011 -  longest continuous service and longest service as Chairman (15th year)
  Frank Irby -  replaced Cliff Betts, Jr. - November 10, 2011

• 2008 - 2010:
  Ray R. Domer
  Noel A. Chandler
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  Marvin Wherrell -  died December 23, 2008
  Margaret Garrard Helton - First Republican Commissioner
  Joey Hoover - replaced Marvin Wherrell - March 2009 (appointed by Governor)

• 2006 - 2008:
  Ray R. Domer
  Noel A. Chandler
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  Marvin Wherrell
  Elvie Posey

• 2004 - 2006:
  Ray R. Domer
  Gene Woods
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  John Abney, Sr.
  Elvie Posey

• 2002 - 2004:
  David E. Hazellief
  Gene Woods
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  John Abney, Sr.
  Clois Harvey

• 2000 - 2002:
  David E. Hazellief
  Gene Woods
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  John Abney, Sr.
  Clois Harvey

• 1998 - 2000:
  David E. Hazellief
  Gene Woods
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  John Abney, Sr.
  Clois Harvey

• 1996 - 1998:
  David E. Hazellief
  Gene  Woods
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  John Abney, Sr.
  Clois Harvey

• 1994 - 1996
  Sarah Hughes
  Gene Woods
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  John Abney, Sr.
  Charles Wesley Harvey - died - April 18, 1995
  Clois Harvey - replaced Charles Wesley Harvey - May 25, 1995

• 1992 - 1994
  Sarah Hughes
  Tommy Close
  Cliff Betts, Jr
  Steve Porter
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1990 - 1992
  Nathaniel Hazellief
  Tommy Close
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  Steve Porter
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1988 - 1990
  Nathaniel Hazellief
  Tommy Close
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  Steve Porter
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1986 - 1988
  James D. Lashley
  Elder Sumner
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  Jack Williamson
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1984 - 1986
  James D. Lashley
  James C. Bass
  Cliff Betts, Jr.
  James N. Broome
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1982 - 1984
  James D. Lashley 
  James C. Bass
  Sarah Frances Price
  James N Broome
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1980 - 1982
  James D. Lashley
  Oscar Thomas
  Sarah Frances Price
  Clyde R. Durrance
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1978 - 1980
  James D. Lashley
  Oscar Thomas
  Hiram Henry Raulerson - died - April 18, 1980
  Clyde R. Durrance
  Charles Wesley Harvey
  Sarah Frances Price - replaced Hiram Henry Raulerson - June 1980 - first woman commissioner

• 1976 - 1978
  James D. Lashley
  Oscar Thomas 
  Hiram Henry Raulerson
  Clyde R. Durrance
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1974 - 1976
  James D. Lashley
  Oscar Thomas
  Hiram Henry Raulerson
  Clyde R. Durrance
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1972 - 1974
  Lemuel E. Herbert
  Oscar Thomas
  Hiram Henry Raulerson
  Clyde R. Durrance
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1971 - 1972 - terms begin second Tuesday following general election - November 1972
  Charlie O. Lawrence
  Oscar Thomas
  Hiram Henry Raulerson
  Clyde R. Durrance
  Jack Williamson

• 1969 - 1971
  Charlie O. Lawrence
  Oscar Thomas
  Hiram Henry Raulerson
  John F. Pearce
  Jack Williamson

• 1967 - 1969
  Nathaniel Hazellief
  Oscar Thomas
  Hiram Henry Raulerson
  John F. Pearce
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1965 - 1967
  Nathaniel Hazellief
  Roy Alton Chandler
  Hiram Henry Raulerson
  Clyde R. Durrance
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1963 - 1965
  Lemuel E. Herbert
  Roy Alton Chandler
  Hiram Henry Raulerson
  Clyde R. Durrance
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1961 - 1963
  Lemuel E. Herbert
  Robert Jackson Robinson
  Hiram Henry Raulerson
  John F. Pearce
  Charles Wesley Harvey

• 1959 - 1961
  Robert Lee Hillis
  Robert Jackson Robinson
  Joseph Marcus Hayes
  John F. Pearce
  Louis Morise Thomas

• 1957 - 1959
  Robert Lee Hillis
  Irvin W. Register
  Joseph Marcus Hayes
  James Clayton White
  Louis Morise Thomas - first OHS graduate to serve - Class of 1926

• 1955 - 1957
  Clarence E. Arnold
  Irvin W. Register
  Joseph Marcus Hayes
  James Clayton White
  Jesse H. Davis

• 1953 - 1955
  Clarence E. Arnold
  Irvin W. Register
  Joseph Marcus Hayes
  Calvin Ellis Drawdy
  Jesse H. Davis

• 1951 - 1953
  Robert Lee Hillis
  Irvin W. Register
  Marvin Leo Mobley
  Calvin Ellis Drawdy
  Joshua Leon Barber

• 1949 - 1951
  Robert Lee Hillis
  William Franklin Walker
  Marvin Leo Mobley
  Calvin Ellis Drawdy
  Joshua Leon Barber

• 1947 - 1949 - four year terms begin for Districts 2 and 4
  B. Charlton Swain
  William Franklin Walker
  Franklin Marion Mobley - died - January 3, 1947
  Calvin Ellis Drawdy
  Oak Joseph Chapman
  Marvin Leo Mobley - replaced Franklin Marion Mobley - February 1947

• 1945 - 1947 - four year terms begin for Districts 1, 3, and 5
  B. Charlton Swain
  William Franklin Walker
  Franklin Marion Mobley
  Calvin Ellis Drawdy
  Oak Joseph Chapman

• 1943 - 1945
  B. Charlton Swain
  Carl Frederick Walker - died - June 1943
  Ernest Walter Hilliard
  Calvin Ellis Drawdy
  Robert Edward Bass
  William Franklin Walker - replaced Carl Frederick Walker - July 1943

• 1941 - 1943
  John Thomas Phelps
  Carl Frederick Walker
  Ernest Walter Hilliard
  Edgar Joshua Wilson
  Robert Edward Bass

• 1939 - 1941
  John Thomas Phelps
  Carl Frederick Walker
  Ernest Walter Hilliard
  Franklin Marion Mobley
  William Earl Godwin

• 1937 - 1939
  John Thomas Phelps
  Alexander Lewis Thompson
  Rayford Manuel Durrance
  Franklin Marion Mobley
  William Earl Godwin

• 1935 - 1937
  John Wesley Swain 
  Alexander Lewis Thompson
  Rayford Manuel Durrance
  Franklin Marion Mobley 
  Robert Upthegrove

• 1933 - 1935
  John Wesley Swain
  Alexander Lewis Thompson
  Rayford Manuel Durrance
  Alto Watford, Sr.
  Harvey A. Upthegrove

• 1931 - 1933
  John Wesley Swain
  Quinn Jackson Bass
  William Easton Arnold
  Franklin Marion Mobley
  Fredrick Hiram Baggott

• 1929 - 1931
  Streety Ashford Hair, Jr. - removed by Governor - December 1929
  Quinn Jackson Bass - removed by Governor - December 1929
  William Weyman Potter - removed by Governor - December 1929
  Franklin Marion Mobley
  Fredrick Hiram Baggot
  John Wesley Swain - appointed by Governor to replace Streety Ashford Hair, Jr. - January 6, 1930
  Alexander L. Thompson - appointed by Governor to replace Quinn Jackson Bass - January 6, 1930
  William Easton Arnold - appointed by Governor to replace William Weyman Potter - January 6, 1930

• 1927 - 1929
  Redden W. Swain
  Drayton R. Kilpatrick
  Rayford Manuel Durrance
  John Edward Alderman - appointed as Potter moved from District
  John Marion Barrow - resigned
  Fredrick Hiram Baggot - replaced John Marion Barrow - March 1927

• 1925 - 1927
  Redden W. Swain
  William Franklin Walker
  John Marion Raulerson
  William Weyman Potter
  Alfred Jackson Davis - resigned before October 1925
  Edward O. Upthegrove - replaced Alfred Jackson Davis - October 5, 1925

• 1923 - 1925:
  Redden W. Swain
  William Franklin Walker
  William Weyman Potter
  John Edward Alderman
  Robert Alexander Upthegrove

•  1921 - 1923:  
  Streety Ashford Hair, Jr.
  William Franklin Walker
  William Weyman Potter
  Charles L. Keene
  Robert Alexander Upthegrove

•  1919 - 1921:     First elected Board of County Commissioners
  Streety Ashford Hair, Jr.
  Alexander Lewis Thompson
  William Weyman Potter
  Douglas Elwood Austin
  Jerry Hancock