[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 35 (Monday, March 27, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S1741]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




TRIBUTE TO MR. THOMAS BRASHER UPON HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE U.S. POSTAL 
                           INSPECTION SERVICE

 Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute to Thomas D. 
Brasher, a native of my home state of Louisiana, who will be retiring 
at month's end after a thirty-five-year career in law enforcement, 
including thirty years as a postal inspector with the U.S. Postal 
Inspection Service. At the time of his retirement, he will be sixth in 
seniority among the nation's 2,115 postal inspectors. Although a native 
of Alexandria, Louisiana, Mr. Brasher has worked with the U.S. Postal 
Inspection Service in California.
  Tom Brasher began his law enforcement career in Lafayette, Louisiana, 
in 1964, when he joined that city's auxiliary police force while 
attending the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He became a regular 
officer in 1965 and worked in patrol. He joined the Louisiana State 
Police in 1966, where he worked until 1970 when he was recruited by the 
Postal Inspection Service.
  Mr. Brasher's Inspection Service career was in the San Francisco 
Division, now the Northern California Division. Except for a four-year 
stint in San Francisco, he worked his entire career in San Jose. Mr. 
Brasher was primarily involved in investigating external crimes and was 
the first External Crimes Prevention Specialist for the division. He 
covered all of seven states and the Pacific Islands in that assignment. 
He also had assignments in child pornography, embezzlements, and the 
monitoring of the design and construction of post offices. He also 
served as an ad-hoc EEO counselor for a four-division area. His last 
assignments have been on the San Jose External Crimes Team, the San 
Francisco Bay Area Violent Crimes Team, the Northern California 
Workplace Violence Team and a detail to the Postal Service's robbery 
task force.
  While Mr. Brasher will retire, his wife, Gay Ann, an award-winning 
school teacher in San Jose, will continue her teaching career. Together 
they will continue their travels, which so far have taken them to 94 
countries around the world.
  I know I speak for my Senate colleagues when I wish Tom and Gay Ann 
Brasher all the best in this new phase of their lives and thank him for 
thirty years of distinguished service to the United States of 
America.




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