[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2215]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    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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