About Ray
Ray Thomas built a working life around public safety and the law. He began his career in uniform, serving as a police sergeant in 1986. Those years on patrol and supervision shaped his view of criminal justice and gave him firsthand experience in investigations and evidence handling.
He moved into legal work later in the 1990s. In 1999 he took a post as an assistant county lawyer in Potter County. That role introduced him to courtroom procedure, case preparation and the routines of local government litigation. He returned to public prosecution work in 2005 as an assistant district lawyer in Brazos County, handling matters that ran the gamut of county-level criminal cases and working alongside prosecutors and investigators.
Child protection issues became a recurring focus in his career. He was part of the Multidisciplinary Team at Scotty’s House Child Advocacy Center from 2005 through 2014, collaborating with social workers, law enforcement and medical professionals on cases involving abused and neglected children. Since 2012 he has also been a member of the Brazos Valley Child Abduction Response Team, which brings together agencies to respond to missing-child incidents. Those roles required coordination across disciplines and attention to both the legal and human sides of difficult cases.
Colleagues describe him as steady in court and attentive to investigative detail. He has experience in prosecutorial offices at the county and district levels and a background in law enforcement that informs his approach to evidence and witness handling. He practices in Texas and remains active in child-abduction response work and related criminal matters.
