 He earned a master's degree in public administration from California State University, Fullerton in 1976 and a law degree from Western State University College of Law in 1984.After leaving the LACC in 1997, Walsh supervised the opening or operations of convention facilities in Hawaii and Alaska before becoming the executive director of the Ontario, California Convention Center from 2002 to 2005.Walsh died of natural causes on May 6, 2011, at the age of 85.