Davis has been a practicing attorney since 1994 and accepted employment at the Harris County Public Defender’s Office in September of 2011. There Mr. Davis serves as an Assistant Public Defender. He is the Chief of the Felony Trial Division. As Chief, Mr. Davis supervises over 40 lawyers, eight investigators and several other administrative employees. He oversees training in the Felony Trial Division. And he still regularly defends and tries criminal cases, sitting first chair in multiple jury trials each year. Immediately prior to joining the Public Defender’s Office, Mr. Davis was the senior member of Davis & Associates, PLLC, a law firm based in Houston, Texas. Mr. Davis graduated from Howard University with honors in 1991 and from Tulane University Law School with honors in 1994. He is also a graduate of the Trial Lawyer's College where he honed his trial skills by learning from some of the best trial lawyers in the country. Following graduation, Mr. Davis was asked to join the staff of the college. He currently serves on the board of directors of the organization and helps train lawyers from across the country. In 2020, he received the Mentor of the Year Award from the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association for his efforts mentoring and training lawyers. He received that same award from the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association in 2016 as well. Mr. Davis regularly presents at Continuing Legal Education courses (CLE) and is routinely a top rated speaker at those CLEs. In 2019, Mr. Davis was recognized as one of the “Best of the Best” by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for a CLE presentation he gave that year on “Arguing and Defining Reasonable Doubt for Juries.”