Justice of the Peace and
 former Chief of Police, San Angelo, Texas 

SIGNED COPIES OF SPEAKER'S BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE
FOR PURCHASE  AT THE MEETING.

About the Author - Photographer

Russell Smith was born in Uvalde, Texas. He started writing poems and short stories long before he graduated from high school in 1969.  He attended Southwest Texas Junior College, Howard College and Angelo State University where the majority of his classes dealt with criminal justice.

His law enforcement career began as a reserve deputy with the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Department in 1977 and ended when he retired as the San Angelo Texas Police Chief in 1999.  This experience spurred his professional writing career; he sold his first article to a police trade magazine in 1980.  A police photography class led to his passion of capturing images on film, and now in digital format.

Russell spent five years as an outdoor columnist for the San Angelo Standard-Times and several magazines. He received numerous awards for his writing and photography from the Texas Outdoor Writers’ Association.  His photographs have appeared in The Bugle, Texas Sportsman, Ranch and Rural Living, Fishing and Hunting News and numerous newspapers.

WELCOME TO ODESSA MR. SMITH!