Dan has been an emergency services chaplain since 1971 when he began as a volunteer with the Tacoma Police Department where he served until 1977. He also served four years as a volunteer chaplain with the Tacoma Fire Department before he started his full time service with the Pierce county Sheriff's Department in 1984.
Besides coordinating the chaplaincy program at PCSD, Dan has been President and now serves as International Liaison for the International Conference of Police Chaplains. This assignment was given him following extensive travels to other countries to review police agencies and chaplaincy programs.
Retired from active chaplaincy in December of 2004, Dan continues to serve as ICPC International Liaison and Director of the Police and Fire Chaplain Training Academy. In April of 2005 his book, Compassion-The Painful Privilege, was published by Barclay Press.
In retirement Dan has been an interim pastor as well as spending more time with his wife of 50 years, Judi and their six children and nine grandchildren. (They are hoping for five more grandchildren currently in the process of being adopted from Africa.)
Dan has been a lifelong fisherman and began fly fishing anew several years ago. Most of his fly fishing has been done on lakes in British Columbia and on Anderson Island where Dan and Judi enjoy a cabin built a few years ago by Dan and his oldest son.
