Tornado
Noah Robinson received an award for his on-duty response to the January 02, 2000 tornado that struck the City of Owensboro.

Frozen Lake
In February of 2004, Robinson received an award from the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for his actions on January 24, 2004. Robinson entered a frozen lake to check for occupants in a partially submerged vehicle.

House Fire
In March of 2007, Robinson received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Vanderburgh Humane Society for assisting animals in danger during a house fire.

Traffic Safety
On July 15, 2016, Robinson was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for dedication and commitment to traffic safety.

Childhood Trauma
In March of 2021 Robinson received a Leadership Everyone award for his role in the creation of a countywide school notification system for children subjected to trauma.

Web Interfacing
In 2013 Noah Robinson designed the interface for the new Sheriff’s Office website that allowed the public to request crash reports, incidents reports, incarceration records, criminal histories and submit requests for temporary road closures.

‘Duty to Intervene’
In 2011 Noah Robinson drafted “Duty to Intervene” language for the Sheriff’s Office Use of Force policy. Robinson successfully lobbied Sheriff Williams to allow this language to be placed into policy, requiring all sheriff’s deputies and confinement officers to take action any time excessive force is being used against a member of the public. While increasingly common now, the concept of a “Duty to Intervene” was not routinely found in most department policies ten years ago.

Statewide DUI Standards
In 2010 Noah Robinson created the Sheriff’s Office standard operating guideline for DUI investigation. The fifteen page document became the go to resource to help deputies navigate the complexities of fatal and serious injury crash investigation involving blood-alcohol evidence. The guideline has been revised many times and shared all over the State of Indiana.

Certified DUI
Noah is an Indiana Law Enforcement Academy certified instructor and taught DUI investigation for over ten years.

Case Management
In 2015 Noah Robinson created a system by which infraction and misdemeanor court dates are pre-assigned for every calendar day and redesigned the local Uniform Traffic Ticket. The enhancements reduced errors and virtually eliminated incorrect court dates being assigned by sheriff’s deputies and Evansville police officers.

Victim Resources
Robinson was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Vanderburgh County Crime Victims Resources website, which went online in September of 2018.

Bicycle Patrol
In 2016, Noah Robinson unveiled the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office Bicycle Patrol program. Noah created this unique program, which was equally focused on education and enforcement. The program was so well received, it was later adopted by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute as the model for the entire state.

Information Sharing
Also in 2016, Noah Robinson created an information sharing platform that linked Circuit and Superior Court Probation, State Parole and local law enforcement. The ambitious program provided deputies and officers with information concerning court supervised offenders, while also allowing deputies and officers to easily notify probation and parole regarding any contact they had with someone under supervision.

Next Door Technologies
In 2017, Noah Robinson started the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office Next Door page. During his time as public information deputy, Noah kept the page up to date with unique content tailored specifically to the county’s many neighborhoods.

New Radio Systems
In 2019 Noah Robinson oversaw the Sheriff’s Office switch over to a new police radio system. He designed the channel layout of the radios, which allowed deputies the ability to switch between systems and communicate over dozens of new talk groups spanning multiple city, county and suburban public safety agencies.

Campus Safety
In early 2018, Noah Robinson was tasked by the Sheriff to create the operational framework necessary for the Sheriff’s Office to begin patrolling the campus of the University of Southern Indiana. Robinson created a budget, shift schedule, radio identification assignments and coordinated revisions to the final memorandum of understanding with the University.

Grants and Funding
Between 2013 and 2018, Noah Robinson wrote dozens of grant applications and obtained over one million dollars in state, federal and private grant funding which was used to pay for traffic safety enforcement, safety education, information technology, equipment and vehicles.

Noah and his wife Janie have lived on the east side of Evansville for over twenty years. Noah graduated from the University of Southern Indiana and Janie graduated from Ivy Tech Community College Evansville. Their two daughters graduated from Signature School and later the University of Southern Indiana and the University of Evansville. Their son attends Plaza Park Middle School.

Noah’s parents, Carol and Clayton Robinson, both graduated from Harrison High School. Clayton is an Air Force veteran, graduate of Indiana State University, and retired from Rexam Closures in Evansville. Carol is a University of Evansville graduate and retired from Madden Co in Evansville.

Noah’s grandfather Eugene “Gene” Robinson was a Bosse High School graduate, US Army Air Force veteran and retired from the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation. Gene and Noah’s grandmother Carlyn attended Trinity United Methodist Church.

Noah’s family has strong Evansville roots. Both his grandparents were lifelong east side Evansville residents and members of Methodist Temple UMC. George was a WWII pacific theatre US Army combat veteran and worked for over 40 years at Southern Indiana Gas and Electric.

Beginnings
Noah Robinson joined the Owensboro Police Department in 1999 and served the City of Owensboro until his appointment as a deputy with the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office in March of 2001.

Professional Standards Unit
In 2009, Noah Robinson was promoted to the rank of sergeant and spent the next five years assigned to the Professional Standards Unit, where he developed policy and procedure for the agency as well as conducted internal investigations.

Motor Patrol
Noah Robinson became a field training deputy in 2003 and spent eight years assigned to Motor Patrol.

Lieutenant
Noah Robinson was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 2014, assigned to headquarters, and placed in charge of information technology, public information, and grants.

Major
In 2018 Noah Robinson was promoted to the rank of major and served as the executive commander over the Administration Division.

Colonel
In 2019 Noah Robinson was promoted to the rank of colonel and named Chief Deputy Sheriff and second in command of the agency.

Noah announced his candidacy on January 27, 2021. On March 19, 2021 - the current Sheriff returned Noah to his previous merit rank of lieutenant.

Awards
In 1998 Robinson was admitted to the Golden Key National Honor Society, an organization which extends membership invitations to students in the upper 15% of their class. In 1999, he was admitted to the Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society.

Law Enforcement
Noah graduated from the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training Center in Richmond, KY. He later received certification from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy.

Early Schools
Noah Robinson attended Castle High School and the University of Southern Indiana. Noah received an Associate's Degree in Social Science and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology with an emphasis in Criminal Justice Studies from the University of Southern Indiana.