CHAIRMAN AND CEO CRAIG W. FLOYD

Craig W. Floyd is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF), a nonprofit organization established in 1984 to honor the service and sacrifice of America's law enforcement officers.

Over the past three decades he has been one of law enforcement's leading advocates — delivering speeches, hosting radio shows, publishing books, writing articles and conducting media interviews. His work as a congressional aide, journalist and nonprofit leader has been widely credited with changing America's attitude toward the law enforcement profession, saving police lives, and helping to ensure the survivors of officers killed in the line of duty are treated with compassion and respect.

Mr. Floyd helped form the Memorial Fund and has served from the outset as the organization's chief executive officer. Under his leadership, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial was built and dedicated in October 1991. Today, that monument stands proudly in our Nation's Capital as a long overdue and richly deserved tribute to America's law officers. More than 17,000 fallen law enforcement officers have their names inscribed on that Memorial, dating back to the first police fatality in 1792.

Most recently, Mr. Floyd and his organization were successful in obtaining Congressional approval of a public law to authorize the establishment of a National Law Enforcement Museum on federal land across the street from the Memorial. Mr. Floyd is now leading the effort to build that Museum, which will be the largest and most comprehensive institution of its kind in the world. The Museum is expected to open in 2011.

As NLEOMF chairman, Mr. Floyd has also spearheaded a number of other important projects to honor our nation's law enforcement officers. They include:

• Enactment of a federal law requiring all American flags to be flown at half-staff on "Peace Officers Memorial Day" (May 15).
• Publication of the book, "To Serve and Protect: A Tribute to American Law Enforcement."
• Enactment of a federal law authorizing a commemorative coin to be issued by the U.S. Mint honoring the service and sacrifice of America's law enforcement officers.

Prior to his work with the Memorial Fund, Mr. Floyd served for 10 years (1978-1988) as Legislative Assistant for U.S. Representative Mario Biaggi (Ret.) of New York, a former New York City police legend, and the founder of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.