Rice & Kwall

Rice & Kwall

Pinellas County Sheriff Everett Rice has been top cop at one of the largest law enforcement agencies in Florida for 15 years. His department, with a nearly $200 million budget, is known for implementing new technology to solve crimes.

Rice, 59, who is retiring in 11 months, said at a Feb. 12 Clearwater Bar Association meeting that he wouldn't have been elected for the first time in 1988 if not for his friends and fellow lawyers, Jean and Lou Kwall.