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“TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL HAYES DETTMER” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E2215 on Dec. 15, 2000.
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TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL HAYES DETTMER
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HON. BART STUPAK
of michigan
in the house of representatives
Friday, December 15, 2000
Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Michael Hayes Dettmer, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, who will be return to private practice in January. After six years of service, Mike will leave the job of chief federal law enforcement officers and prosecutor for 49 counties in western Michigan and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and return to practice law in Traverse City, a community in my northern Michigan congressional district.
Mike Dettmer's appointment by President Clinton to this position followed a distinguished career in Michigan. A trial lawyer since 1972, he served as the 59th president of the State Bar of Michigan in 1993 and 1994, having been elected to that position by the lawyers throughout Michigan.
Mike served as chairman of the state bar's Professionalism Task Force and he served as co-chairman of the Standing Committee on Professionalism, as well as chairing numerous other bars committees. At the Department of Justice he chairs the Attorney General's policy committee relating to Office of Justice programs, and he is a member of the Committee on Native American Issues and Civil Justice Issues.
My Michigan colleague, Fred Upton, recently paid public homage to Mike's work, praising in an Associated Press story Mike's efforts in fighting crime in Benton Harbor, a community in Congressman Upton's district and an area where drugs are a particular problem.
A Michigander through and through, Mike graduated from Michigan State University and received his law degree from the Wayne State University School of Law in 1971.
Mike brought new energy to the position of U.S. Attorney, and I know he is leaving the job in the belief that it demands new blood, fresh ideas and constant renewal.
Mike has always been an avid golfer, but I know that his golf score will greatly benefit from the some additional time on the fairways, time that he may now have, with the demands of his federal job behind him.
Mr. Speaker, I ask you and our colleagues to join me in offering our thanks to this public servant for a job well done. I welcome his return to northern Michigan.
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