Captain Larry Norris Criminal Justice Memorial Scholarship

On March 8, 1967, Larry began his long law enforcement career by joining the La Crosse
County Traffic Police. In 1975, he was promoted to sergeant where he was a shift commander. In 1995, he was promoted to captain and appointed as La Crosse County’s first
Jail Administrator. He retired on December 28, 1998, after nearly 32 years of service.
During his career, he attended Northwestern Traffic Institute, once for traffic accident investigation and again for accident reconstruction, investigating and reconstructing over 350 fatal accidents. He taught accident investigation in the recruitment classes at Western Wisconsin Technical Institute, now Western Technical College, for 25 years and the same subject for two years in the associate degree program until they got their own in-house instructors. He was chairman of the La Crosse County Safety Committee for 25 years, and
also so was a state certified radar instructor, specializing in case law. He was three classes short of getting his associate degree in Police Science and regretted not completing it.
Larry’s family would like to honor his life of serving his community by helping other students studying criminal justice at Western Technical College achieve their dreams.