Captain Dwight Walker is a seventh generation Texan who descends from an original land grant family and still has roots that run deep in Texas. He and his wife Jan moved to Dallas in the early seventies when he took a job as a police officer for the Dallas Police Department, rising quickly through the ranks, and retiring as a Captain. Capt. Walker’s time on the Dallas Police Department taught him leadership lessons that he has used in the public and private sectors. The lessons he learned were an effective leader earns respect by leading from the front, seeks to understand the issues before making decisions, and always has the best interest of others first.
Capt. Walker’s nearly forty-year professional career has spanned the public and private sectors. As a twenty-seven-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department he held leadership positions with South East Patrol division, Vice, Narcotics, and the SWAT team where he had the fortune to fast rope off a helicopter. Capt. Walker had the privilege of managing the security for the 1984 Republican National Convention at which Ronald Reagan accepted the party’s nomination for his second term. In his roles he managed up to 350 officers and had multi-million-dollar budgets under his command. To further advance his leadership skills, he attended the FBI National leadership academy, Secret Service Dignitary Protection School, the Southern Police Institute Executive Officer School, and the Southwest Law Institute’s Command and Management School. After a long career in law enforcement, Capt. Walker became the Director of Client Management for an institutional bond advisory firm that grew assets under management from $4b to $15b.
Not only has Capt. Walker held leadership positions in the public and private sector, he has served on several boards to share his leadership advice and helped them navigate the challenges they face. These boards have included being the president of the Texas Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems, a trustee of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund, City Credit Union, and he currently serves as the Vice President of the Dallas Retired Police Officers Association. Capt. Walker said, “Of all my leadership positions the greatest reward has come from being an elder and member at Rockwall’s Eastridge Church of Christ for the last three decades.”
Capt. Walker said that these leadership experiences taught him that leaders do not always say no. “In order to make better lives for all, good leaders reach out across the aisle and look their opponents in the eye and find a way to work it out. When we look back to the 2010 census the data shows Rockwall County grew by 28.5% from 2010 to 2018. This growth brings challenges which the founders of Rockwall could not have imagined. Today and tomorrow, Rockwall needs leaders who seek to understand the issues and have the foresight to know how their decisions will affect future generations”.
As a vote of confidence in his leadership experience Capt. Walker has been endorsed by the Dallas Retired Police Officers Association, the retired police chiefs of Royce City and the Dallas Police Department, and the incumbent Sheriff of Rockwall County – Harold Eavenson.
Capt. Walker noted that at the end of January he will be on a mission trip to Colombia and will briefly pause his campaign activities. Capt. Walker will be working with the local police department in Cucuta, Colombia and Columbia’s national leaders to advise them on how to stem the tide of human trafficking that affects the young, vulnerable women and children coming from Venezuela through Colombia.
Capt. Walker said that, “Voting for me will put forty years of leadership experience to work as the next commissioner for Rockwall County’s first precinct. It is now time for a true conservative to find ways to say yes to sensible growth. To borrow a phrase from Ronald Regan in 1984, ‘It is morning again in America.’”
Submitted by Dwight Walker, edited for publication in Blue Ribbon News.
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