Elected Officials profiles

Robert L. (Bob) Collins
Prosecuting Attorney

Bob is serving his second term as Prosecuting Attorney of Perry County. Before being elected prosecutor, he served as a deputy attorney general for the State of Indiana, a federal agent and a state trooper.

Bob is licensed to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Indiana, the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Courts, and the Supreme Court of Michigan.  He earned his Jurist Doctorate from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1981, was a Public Administration Masters Candidate at the University of California in 1988, and obtained his Bachelors of Arts degree from Northern Michigan University in 1972.

Bob’s professional memberships include the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council, the National District Attorneys Association, the Indiana Bar Association, the Michigan Bar Association, the Perry County Bar Association, the Perry County Substance Abuse Committee, the Perry County Domestic Violence Committee, the Fraternal Order of Police Cann-Tella Rock Lodge #137, and the Indiana Sheriffs Association.  Bob is also a member of the First Baptist Church of Tell City, the Tell City Kiwanis Club, the Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge #1424, the Perry County Community Foundation, and Hoosier Heights Country Club.

Bob was born in Perry County in 1950 and is the son of Marie Collins (Daum) of Cannelton and the late Robert H. Collins of Tell City.  He lives in Tell City with his wife Kimberley, co-founder and Vice-President of the Women’s Democrat Association of Perry County.

Bob says, “I have been blessed with a great team of dedicated hard working employees and with your ongoing support, I will continue to fight substance abuse in our county, to support our law enforcement officers, to help the victims of crime, to use the law to convict the guilty, and be fair-minded but tough on criminals.”