Past Fire Chiefs

Beginning with the Most Recent

  • Chad Dutz: 2015 - Current
  • David Nondorf: 2004 - 2015
  • Thomas Steindler Sr.: 2000 - 2004
  • Carroll Walls: 1996 - 2000
  • Phillip Griffith: 1988 - 1996
  • Larry Linton: 1984 - 1988
  • Billy Butterfield: 1976 - 1984
  • ​Stanley Conner: 1955 - 1976
  • Wilbur Cowdrey: 1943 - 1955
  • Harry Clindedinst: 1942 - 1943
  • John Marks: 1930 - 1942
  • Fred Wittenburg: 1926 - 1930
  • William Forney: 1924 - 1926
  • Jesse Wise: 1922 - 1924
  • Lyman Dean: 1915 - 1921
  • John Holman: 1912 - 1913
  • Jesse Wise: 1911 - 1912
  • John Holman: 1911
  • Jesse Wise: 1905 - 1910
  • Will Newland: 1898 - 1905
  • William Edwards: 1897
  • Will Newland: 1897
  • L.T. White: 1893 - 1897
  • William Drago: 1889 - 1893
  • William Emery Brown: 1885 - 1887
  • William Emery Brown: 1882
  • Robert Jones: 1880
  • William Kellogg: 1880
  • William Drago: 1877
  • John Kellogg: 1875
  • J.W. Kellogg 1869
  • John Halsey: First Fire Chief 1867
Source: "A Walk Through Time With The Valparaiso Fire Department"
Pages: 259 - 260
Historian/Former Battalion Chief Gene Spencer