The High Sheriff of Essex 2025–26 is Julie Fosh (pictured). You can read more about Julie here, and you can follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

For contact details, please visit the High Sheriffs’ Association. 

Julie Fosh is officially the 845th High Sheriff of Essex. She was also the 840th (read here about her installation in March 2020). Although it is customary for High Sheriffs to serve only a single term of one year, the Sheriffs Act 1887 does allow for a further term of office after a gap of three years. Because of the onerous nature of the role it is highly unusual in modern times for High Sheriffs to serve twice, and in Essex the last person to do this was Sir Thomas Bendish Bt of Steeple Bumpstead (1618 and 1630). In 2020–21, thanks to the Covid lockdowns, Julie was unable to perform most of the duties for which she had prepared and has therefore seized this second opportunity to do so, as have the High Sheriffs of Greater London and West Sussex.

This website was created by James Bettley, High Sheriff of Essex 2019–20. You can still read his blog posts by clicking here, as well those of Nicholas Alston, High Sheriff 2022–23, by clicking here, and David Hurst, High Sheriff 2024–25, by clicking here.