Officer Jose Dominguez joined Donahue Academy through Palm Security, a company employed by the Diocese of Venice to facilitate safety and security at its school campuses. Officer Dominguez’s path to Donahue, and to Ave Maria for that matter, has been marked by a persistent desire to serve. He was born in Cuba and came to the United States with my family as a child. His desire in life has always been to seek a profession where he could serve. As such, he joined the US Army and became an Emergency Medical Technician because he believed that he had to do something to repay this country for giving him and his family the same opportunity, protections, and liberties that it gave its own people. He subsequently became a Voluntary Firefighter for his local fire department before deciding that the greatest way to serve was to become a law enforcement officer. Officer Dominguez then became a sheriff’s deputy in his home town in Louisiana 2004 and served the department in several different capacities, even teaching in the Police academy.

In 2017, his wife’s job brought them to Naples and he decided to retire. Though he soon too took up a new job, it didn’t focus on the kind of service he had dedicated his life to. His family began to pray, asking God that He lead him where he needed to be, so when he found the job posting at Donahue, it was an answered prayer. Officer Dominguez is enthusiastic and grateful to witness and safeguard the warmth and tight-knit community character of the school and protect its members.