Leadership Stockton
2011 Alumni of the Year

Ralph Womack 

City of Stockton - Operation Peacekeeper

Leadership Stockton Class of 1990

LSAA 2011 Alumni of the Year

Ralph Womack’s career includes over 32 years in law enforcement where he worked in, supervised or managed every division of the Stockton Police Department; some of them several times. He retired as a Captain in 2003 and, after a couple of years conducting pre-employment background investigations for the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department, he was asked to come back to the City of Stockton to lead the Operation Peacekeeper Program in 2007. 

Ralph is an avid runner and SCUBA diver, and became a SCUBA instructor in 1991.  He takes pride in the fact that among his students he taught many members of the Stockton Police Department how to dive.  He and his wife Marie continue to dive in many locations around the world. He also takes pride in having run 7 marathons and countless other races.  Ralph states that his biggest pride however, is in his 3 children and in his fast-growing grandchildren. 

Ralph is a U.S. Navy veteran who served in the then-top secret Observation Squadron 67 (VO-67) flying secret missions during the Vietnam War. He kept the missions and his involvement confidential for over 30 years until they were unclassified in 1998, much to the surprise of many relatives and friends who had no idea of this part of his Navy experience. 

Ralph is as a graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy and the California Command College .  He holds a Masters Degree in Management from Cal-Poly, Pomona and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco .  

In addition to directing a team of 6 youth outreach workers in the Operation Peacekeeper Program, Ralph is a member and past-president of the Stockton/San Joaquin Emergency Food Bank Board of Directors where he founded the annual Thanksgiving Day Run and Walk Against Hunger. He continues to be the race director for this ever-growing event which is now in its 7^th year and has to date raised close to $250,000 for the Food Bank.