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Glen H. McLaughlin Scholarship Recipient

Lieutenant John Henry Santellan

Trinity University Police Department

Pictured left to right: TPA President Mike Davis, TPA Sergeant at Arms Charlie Patnode, Lieutenant John
Santellan, TPA Region 6 Director Alicia Dockens, and TPA Executive Director Erwin Ballarta

Glen H. McLaughlin served as the Executive Director of the Texas Police Association from 1960 until 1988. He
had a distinguished career of service with the Department of Public Safety and championed the State Law that
created the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE, now TCOLE).
In his honor, the Texas Police Association created the Glen H. McLaughlin Memorial Foundation to provide
training scholarships to law enforcement officers who otherwise might be financially unable to attend a
particular training program offered by the Association.

Lieutenant John Santellan, from the Trinity University Police Department, is the recipient of the Scholarship
from this Foundation. He has currently served this agency for 12 years and 1 month. He applied to attend the
2023a Law Enforcement Leadership Conference, which he was approved unanimously by the TPA Executive
Committee.