‘A nervous wreck’: Johnson County employee speaks on claims she made against sheriff
An indicted North Texas sheriff began sexually harassing an employee when she returned to work after spending a month in the intensive care unit, the employee told WFAA-TV.
The employee, Anna Goodloe, worked in Johnson County Sheriff Adam King’s office as a training coordinator for 12 years, she told WFAA Tuesday night, in her first public interview.
Goodloe has a Ph.D. in management from Colorado Technical University, where she now works as an adjunct instructor, according to her LinkedIn profile.
“As cliche as it sounds, I wanted to make a difference,” Goodloe told WFAA’s Adriana De Alba. Goodloe wanted to create strong training curriculum for law enforcement, dispatchers and jailers, she said.
The alleged harassment took place over the course of about 17 months, from February 2024 to July 2025, the Star-Telegram previously reported.
Prior to that, Goodloe said she had experienced some health issues that put her in the intensive care unit for about three weeks. The health issues forced Goodloe to cut out sodas, alcohol and fast food, and she lost about 130 pounds, she said.
Goodloe returned to the sheriff’s office in February 2024 after undergoing intense rehabilitation including speech, occupational and physical therapy, she said. It was then that King began to make the unwelcome remarks, she said.
“Instead of calling me Dr. Goodloe or Sergeant Goodloe, it was Dr. Skinny,” Goodloe said. “You would see his eyes move up and down because of his cowboy hat, you could see it shift.”
As the comments continued, Goodloe said she would try to avoid walking alone in the hallways at work. When she did have to walk alone, she “would just have to hold my own and walk proudly and hold my head up,” she said.
“I didn’t want him to see that I was rattled, but physically I was a nervous wreck,” Goodloe said. “I just had to kind of endure it until I got to the point that I just flat out could not continue.”
On one occasion, Goodloe said she told King she planned to arrive at work at 6 a.m. the following day. She said King responded, “that’s early enough that you don’t have to wear any clothes,” according to the indictment. Goodloe said that she tried to redirect the conversation, but that King repeated himself, and that’s when she reached her breaking point.
Goodloe would’ve quit that day, but the sight of the sheriff’s truck in the parking lot stopped her as she went to turn in her badge and gun to the chief deputy, she said.
“I didn’t want to face him,” Goodloe said. “I didn’t want to see him, I just drove past and went home.”
There were days, Goodloe said, that the effects of the harassment were so terrible that she would pull over on the highway to vomit as she drove into work.
Eventually, it was more painful to carry on like that than it was to “pull the trigger” and report the harassment, she said.
“I think that the bottom line is what the sheriff did was wrong,” Goodloe’s attorney Patricia Cooke said. “I think, deep down, he knows it was wrong.”
Attorneys for King could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday. He placed himself on administrative leave after being indicted.
This story was originally published September 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM.
