BAYTOWN,Texas – In a short ceremony Wednesday, officials with the city of Baytown and Harris County unveiled the new name of the courthouse in Baytown as the Clinton F. Greenwood Courthouse.
Greenwood's law enforcement family, along with his immediate family, felt this was the best way to honor a man who spent 30 years serving Harris County.
The courthouse was also the place Deputy Greenwood was gunned down outside of in April.
"This tribute was everything Clint stood for: integrity, dedication and leadership," Leatha Greenwood, Clint's wife, said. "All of us here today who enter this building or pass by will think of Clint and his legacy. I think this is the biggest honor of Clint's career, and there have been many."
Before he died, Greenwood was the assistant chief deputy with the Harris County Precinct 3 Constable's Office.
He also spent time as a major with the Harris County Sheriff's Office and at the DA's office as a prosecutor, judge and chief of the Police Integrity Division.
"After that dark day in April, with a heavy heart, all I could think about was surely this is not the way it's all going to end to someone who dedicated so much of their life to Harris County as a public servant," Sherman Eagleton, the Harris County Precinct 3 constable, said.
Greenwood's death made headlines on April 3, as he was gunned down outside the very building that now bears his name.
Police say 64-year-old William Francis Kenny was the prime suspect and had some history with Greenwood. Kenny took his own life the next day at Ben Taub Hospital.
It was asked of Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Don Coffey to come up with someone to name the courthouse after, and he couldn't think of anyone better than Deputy Greenwood.
"It came to me during the eulogy, during the service, and I set about it making it my goal to make it happen as quickly as possible," Coffey said.
Greenwood was 57 years old.
