A Missouri State Highway Patrol major who once patrolled Osage and Gasconade counties as a corporal is retiring effective Feb. 1 after 29 years of service.

Maj. Corey J. Schoeneberg, bureau commander for the Administrative Service Bureau of the MSHP, was appointed to the Patrol on July 1, 1996, as a member of the 72nd Recruit Class. After graduating from the Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy, his first assignment was to Troop B, Zone 2, Macon and Shelby counties. He transferred to Troop F, Zone 6, Moniteau and Morgan counties on Jan. 1, 2001.

Schoeneberg was promoted to corporal and assigned to Zone 12, Gasconade and Osage counties, on July 1, 2001. On Nov. 13, 2005, he was promoted to sergeant and transferred to Zone 1, Cole and southern Callaway counties. Schoeneberg was promoted to lieutenant and assigned to the Professional Standards Division, General Headquarters, Jefferson City on June 1, 2011.

He was promoted to captain on Dec. 1, 2014, and named director of the same division. On July 1, 2018, he transferred to the Field Operations Bureau at General Headquarters, where he served as an assistant bureau commander. He was named commanding officer of Troop F, Jefferson City, on May 1, 2019. On August 1, 2022, Schoeneberg was promoted to major and designated bureau commander of the Administrative Services Bureau, General Headquarters, Jefferson City.

Schoeneberg was born in Jefferson City and graduated from California High School in 1993. He holds a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. He graduated from the 255th Session of the FBI National Academy Program at Quantico, Va., in 2014. He completed Police Leadership: The West Point Model Executive Level Course in 2019. Schoeneberg and his wife, Carey (Scott), have two children: Kathryn and Avery.