Biography
Ray's principal area of practice is public finance. He has practiced in the law of state and local governments and their constitutional and statutory authority to provide and finance public activities for 40 years, and has drafted for and provided the legislative framework to state and local agencies and their political leadership numerous amendments to the Texas Constitution and enabling laws that authorize the state and its political subdivisions and instrumentalities to provide the public infrastructure that is required to provide for a high quality of life for Texas citizens from Texarkana to El Paso and from the Oklahoma border to Brownsville and elsewhere.

He has represented public agencies at the state and local level, and their bond financing underwriters in the broadest possible range of public activities. Specific examples include Dallas Area Rapid Transit and Houston Metro, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and other airport facilities in El Paso, Amarillo, Memphis (Tennessee), and the Republic of Guam; Tarrant County Community College District; Texas Stadium in Irving, the Ballpark in Arlington, American Airlines Center in Dallas, and Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth; Dallas County Hospital District (Parkland Hospital), Zale Lipshy and other hospitals in Dallas, Irving, Arlington, and elsewhere; housing projects in Odessa, Victoria, and Valdez (Alaska); public power projects, including lignite and nuclear generation facilities wholly or partially owned by Denton, Bryan, Garland, and Greenville; public school facilities for Dallas, Richardson, Lubbock, Bryan, and other independent school districts; tax exempt financing of educational and student housing facilities for the independent colleges and universities of Texas, including Southern Methodist University, Abilene Christian College, Trinity University, and Austin College; jail and privatized prison facilities for Collin County, Dallas County, Liberty County, and the City of Mansfield; water supply and distribution systems, and irrigation, and wastewater collection systems in many parts of Texas, together with many others, including streets, roads, and the public's general transportation needs.