Steve Wilhoit
Lieutenant / Assistant Director, Division of Drug & Crime Control
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Steve currently serves as an Assistant Director with the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control. In that capacity, he oversees criminal and narcotics investigations in the northern tier of the State, as well as narcotics investigations in the central part of Missouri. Steve, a lifelong Missouri resident, is a graduate of South Shelby High School in Shelbina and holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice administration with a minor in political science from the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. Prior to joining the Highway Patrol in 1996, Steve served for several years as a Kansas City, Mo., police officer.