[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 49 (Monday, March 31, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E445]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             HONORING WILLIAM D. WHITE OF NAPA, CALIFORNIA

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                           HON. MIKE THOMPSON

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 31, 2008

  Mr. THOMPSON of California. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize 
my good friend and former high school classmate, William D. ``Bill'' 
White, who has retired from the Napa County District Attorney's Office 
after 35 years of dedicated public service in law enforcement.
  Bill grew up near Lake Berryessa in Napa County and attended a small 
county elementary school that was variously housed in a county roads 
building, a laundromat, and a teacher's home before a proper elementary 
school was built. When he moved to the ``city schools'' in St. Helena, 
he prospered. He was on the high school football and track teams, was 
both vice president and president of the Student Body Council and Model 
U.N. representative.
  Bill began his law enforcement career shortly after he graduated from 
St. Helena High School. He enrolled in Napa Valley College and soon 
thereafter joined the campus police force.
  In 1973 Bill began working for the Calistoga Police Department as a 
patrolman and as a police dispatcher and later worked as a patrolman 
with the Suisun Police Department in Solano County. Bill joined the 
Napa County Sheriffs Department in 1977 and distinguished himself over 
the next 18 years as a patrol deputy, narcotics investigator, and 
homicide investigator.
  He joined the Napa County District Attorney's Office as an 
investigator in 1995, later becoming supervising investigator in 2004 
and chief investigator in 2005. In these years he became an expert in 
domestic violence and homicide investigations. In the course of his 
career he has worked on more than 3,000 domestic violence cases and 
became a court-approved expert in investigating these crimes.
  Madam Speaker, Bill White has provided an invaluable service to the 
people of Napa County for many years, and it is fitting and proper to 
honor him today and wish him well in his retirement.

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