[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 20, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4279]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   TRIBUTE TO THOMAS PATTERSON MANEY

 Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, I recognize Judge Thomas Patterson 
Maney, who has served his Nation honorably and is retiring.
  Judge Maney served our Nation in the Army Reserve for almost 37 
years, including 8 years of Active Duty, serving in Panama, Haiti, 
Bosnia, and Afghanistan. As a major and lieutenant colonel, he worked 
with the military group at the U.S. Embassy in Panama, training the 
Guardia Nacional/Panama Defense Force in civil affairs and civic 
action. He commanded a reserve civil affairs brigade in Maryland, as 
well as the 350th Civil Affairs Command in Pensacola, and later served 
as the deputy commander of the Civil Affairs and Psychological 
Operations Command and deputy commandant of the John F. Kennedy Special 
Operations School at Fort Bragg. He is the recipient of the Purple 
Heart and retired as an Army brigadier general in 2007.
  Judge Maney was appointed Okaloosa County court judge by Governor Bob 
Martinez and assumed the bench on June 5, 1989. He was elected to the 
position in 1990 and was subsequently reelected each time he was on the 
ballot. During his time as a circuit court judge, he served as a 
juvenile dependency judge, child support judge, and served as the Baker 
Act/Marchman Act judge for nearly a decade. Judge Maney shares his 
passion and expertise of the law with colleagues across the district 
and the State of Florida, delivering educational presentations for the 
Conference of County Court Judges and the Advanced Judicial College. He 
also started the Okaloosa Mental Health Court and the Okaloosa Veterans 
Treatment Court. The act establishing the Okaloosa Veterans Treatment 
Court was named the T. Patt Maney Veterans Treatment Court Act in his 
honor.
  Judge Maney was born in Lexington, KY, and is a graduate of the 
University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville College of Law, 
Troy State University, and the Army War College. He has been married to 
his wife, Caroline, for almost 47 years, and they have two daughters 
and six grandchildren. He is also a member of the Sons of the American 
Revolution.
  I thank Judge Maney for a lifetime of devotion to serving our Nation 
both overseas and on the bench. I extend my best wishes to him and his 
family on his well-earned retirement.

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