D. Michael Collins --- June 30 1944 – February 6, 2015

D. Michael Collins died doing what he loved most – serving the citizens of Toledo and being mayor to the Glass City. Collins, in fact, had served the citizens of Toledo for most of his adult life. For the few years that he was not directly serving Toledo, he was serving his country.

Collins was born on June 30, 1944 and grew up in the old South End and was a life-long Toledoan. He graduated from St. James Grade School and Libbey High School. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and achieved the rank of corporal and received an honorable discharge.

In 1973 he was appointed to the Toledo Police Department and served for 27 years, including his last 10 years as the president of the Toledo Police Patrolman’s Association. Throughout his career he received numerous letters of recognition for excellence in police service. In 1997 he was awarded the professional Service Award by the Toledo Police Department.
 

D. Michael Collins

While working full time and raising a family, he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1975 and a master’s degree in business administration in 1998 from The University of Toledo. He was recognized for high scholastic achievement in both degrees.

After retiring from TPD, Collins began teaching as a visiting professor in the department of Criminal Justice at UT. Between teaching assignments he served the university as the Director of the Ohio Police Corps, an Ohio police academy funded by the U.S. Department of Justice.

He began serving his first term as the elected Toledo City Councilman for District 2 in January 2008. He was elected to a second term which began in January 2012. He was sworn in as mayor in January 2014.

Collins was married to Sandy Drabik and the couple have three daughter and eight grandchildren. As an independent he had never been a member of a political party

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