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The Parade Committee is honored to
announce the Grand Marshal for the
2008 Parade:  Raleigh Chief Of Police
Harry Patrick Dolan.
Debra Morgan
Past Grand Marshals
2007 Debra Morgan, WRAL Anchor/Reporter
2006 Richard H. Moore, NC State Treasurer
2005 Steve McLaurin, Vice President, McLaurin Parking
2004 Bill Gaines, Anchor of NBC 17 News (Raleigh)
2003 Mayor Charles Meeker (Raleigh)
2002 Jane Perlov, Raleigh Police Chief
2001 Sharon Delaney, Anchor of NBC 17 News (Raleigh)
2000 Paul Coble, Raleigh Mayor
1999 Kieran J. Shanhan, Raleigh City Council Member
1998 Donna Gregory, Anchor of NBC 17 News (Raleigh)
1997 Sylvia Wiggins, Exec. Director, Helping Hand Mission
1996 Pam Saulsby, Anchor, WRAL 5 News (Raleigh)
1995 Mayor Tom Fetzer, (Raleigh)
1994 Fred Heineman, Raleigh Police Chief
1993 David Allen, Anchor, Fox TV News
1992 John McIntyre, Parade Founder
Professional Experience
Eighteen of Mr. Dolan’s 27 years as a law enforcement officer have been spent in North Carolina. Five of those years were with the Raleigh Police Department.  Mr. Dolan has held the position of chief of the Grand Rapids, Mich., Police Department for the past nine years. The Grand Rapids Police Department has a staff of 472 to serve a population of nearly 200,000. He was chief of the Lumberton Police Department from 1992 to 1998. Mr. Dolan served as chief of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources Police Department at Black Mountain  from 1987 to 1992. He was named the most outstanding graduate of the Raleigh Police Academy in 1982 and served Raleigh for five years, leaving for Black Mountain in 1987 with the rank of first-class police officer. He began his law-enforcement career in 1980 as a Buncombe County deputy sheriff.

The New York native earned an associate degree in law enforcement from Palm Beach Community College, a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Western Carolina University and a master’s degree in organizational leadership from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He is a graduate of the Police Executive Development Program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute of Government.

Source:  City of Raleigh website
Raleigh St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee
PO Box 91301
Raleigh, NC 27675
Email: info@raleighstpats.org
Call 919-846-9739
This is the official website of The Raleigh St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee