Biography
For the past two years Ray has served as a training attorney in the Indigent Defense Improvement Division of California’s Office of the State Public Defender. Prior to this role, he has been a public defender in multiple California counties, Montgomery County, Maryland, and throughout the state of Kentucky. Graduating from Georgetown Law in 2009, his fifteen years as a public defender across the country include representation of adults and children at all stages of prosecution, including capital eligible cases. Ray led two different units in Kentucky’s state public defense system, including the new attorney training unit of its Education and Strategic Planning Branch. His most recent focuses include pretrial release litigation and public defender mentorship programs. In addition to being a proud member of the Gideon’s Promise class of 2011, Ray serves on faculty in that program, as well as various trial skills programs. Ray’s partner in this work is the 1L love of his life—and his public defender spouse—Andrea Kendall. They live together in Orange County with a running combined total of thirty years and eleven household moves working to build a community of committed and passionate defenders throughout the country.
