Cattle Raisers name new Special Ranger for District 17
 
FORT WORTH, Texas, July 12, 2007—Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association has named James Bond Special Ranger for District 17. Bond will be based in Midland.

Bond has 30 years experience in law enforcement, first working for the Texas Department of Public Safety, then for the Round Rock Police Department.

A state trooper from 1972-1979, his duties included testing and issuing driver's licenses to applicants, traffic enforcement, accident investigation, enforcement of size and weight laws, and commercial motor carrier laws. 

In 1982, Bond joined the Round Rock Police Department, where he was initially assigned as a uniformed patrol officer.

He was assigned to the department's criminal investigation division in 1984 and promoted to sergeant investigator in 1985.
 
In 1999, Bond was reassigned to uniformed patrol as shift supervisor.

Bond served with the Texas Army National Guard from 1965-1971, and re-enlisted in 1983. From 1983 to 1999, he served as a criminal investigation division agent.

His duties included investigating criminal offenses occurring against the Texas Army National Guard and working with active duty U.S. Army criminal investigation division agents investigating criminal offenses against the Army and Army personnel. He retired from the National Guard as the detachment first sergeant E-7.

Bond is no stranger to the cattle business, as he has worked as a market inspector for TSCRA and worked part-time for several Texas ranches.

He and his wife, Sue, have four children and two grandchildren between them and raise Quarter Horses.

Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association is a 130-year-old trade organization whose 14,800 members manage approximately 3.7 million cattle on 96.5 million acres of range and pasture land, primarily in Texas and Oklahoma.