U.S. Marshal, Southern District of Ohio

U.S. Marshal James M. Wahlrab	James M. Wahlrab was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio on August 2, 2002. U.S. Marshal Wahlrab was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He attended the Dayton public schools and after graduation attended the University of Dayton, Indiana State University, The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati. Marshal Wahlrab's career with the United States Marshals Service can be traced back to his initial appointment as a Student Intern and a co-op student in 1974. During a short break in federal government service, he became a police officer in a Dayton suburb and then worked as a corrections counselor in a privately operated half-way house. In 1978 he returned to federal service as a corrections officer with the United States Bureau of Prisons at Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary in Indiana. In 1979, Marshal Wahrab was sworn in as a Deputy United States Marshal and was initially stationed in Columbus, Ohio. He volunteered and was accepted as a member of the Marshals Service's elite, Special Operations Group, a para-military swat team.
In 1986 Marshal Wahlrab was promoted to Inspector and was assigned to a headquarters position in Charleston, West Virginia. He subsequently transferred to Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1992 he was promoted to Senior Inspector. Marshal Wahlrab has been involved with and instrumental in the planning of numerous successful, tactical operations involving major cases, high threat trials and witness and dignitary protective assignments in the United States, it's territories and abroad. Marshal Wahrab is the only career Deputy Marshal ever to have received a Presidential Appointment to office of United States Marshal in the Southern District of Ohio.
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