[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 41 (Thursday, March 9, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E304-E305]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 HONORING THE RETIREMENT OF CAPTAIN DALE HARRIS, JAG CORPS, U.S. NAVY 
                                 (RET)

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                         HON. RICHARD M. NOLAN

                              of minnesota

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 9, 2017

  Mr. NOLAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Captain Dale Harris, 
JAGC, USN (ret), who recently retired after 23 years of combined active 
duty and reserve service to our nation with the United States Navy.
  Captain Harris was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota and raised in 
nearby Duluth. After graduating first in his class at East High School 
in 1985, he received a Bachelor's of Mechanical Engineering degree from 
the University of Minnesota in 1990. He subsequently earned his J.D. 
from Hamline University School of Law, cum laude, in 1993 and began his 
Navy career.
  Captain Harris served on active duty in the Navy JAG Corps from 1993-
2000. He was an honors graduate of the Naval Justice School and winner 
of the school's trial advocacy competition. He spent three years 
assigned to Everett and Bremerton, Washington, serving stints both as a 
defense attorney and as a prosecutor, where he handled more than fifty 
courts-martial and forty administrative discharge boards, quickly 
gaining notoriety as one of the Navy's best young litigators. Captain 
Harris then worked as appellate defense counsel at the Navy-Marine 
Corps Appellate Review Activity in Washington, D.C. In that role, he 
filed briefs in over one hundred cases, and argued twenty-five cases 
before military appellate courts. Following his release from active 
duty in 2000, Captain Harris continued his military service in the Navy 
Reserve, including distinguished tours as a judge on the Navy-Marine 
Corps Court of Criminal Appeals and as the Commanding Officer of the 
Navy and Marine Corps Appellate Review Activity support unit. Over the 
past 23 years, he earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the 
preeminent uniformed lawyers of his generation in the area of appellate 
litigation. For his outstanding service to our Nation, Captain Harris 
earned numerous personal awards, including four Meritorious Service 
Medals, three Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medals, and three Navy-
Marine Corps Achievement Medals.
  Captain Harris returned home to Northeastern Minnesota in 2000 and 
served the citizens of Minnesota's Eighth District as an attorney in 
private practice and later as an Assistant St. Louis County Attorney, 
where he handled state and federal civil litigation, and provided 
counsel for the sheriff and Arrowhead Regional Corrections. He 
continued his appellate work by arguing cases at the Minnesota Court of 
Appeals, Minnesota Supreme Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 
Eighth Circuit. Since 2010, Captain Harris has served his community as 
a state District Court Judge chambered in Duluth, establishing himself 
as a fair-minded and extremely capable jurist. The integrity, work 
ethic and leadership skills that were the hallmark of his military 
career will continue to define his ongoing public service as a judge.
  I commend Captain Harris for his commitment to our country and the 
sacrifices he and his family made on its behalf. On the occasion

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of his retirement from the United States Navy, I thank him, his wife, 
and their four children for their honorable service to our nation and 
wish them fair winds and following seas as Captain Harris concludes 
this portion of his distinguished legal career.

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