Vice Presidents
Vice President, The Center for American and International Law
Director, Institute for Law and Technology and Institute for Energy Law
vadams@cailaw.org
+1.972.244.3421
Vickie Adams joined CAIL in April 2014 after moving to Texas from Oklahoma, and made the move to the Institute for Energy Law in May of 2015. Before joining CAIL full time, Vickie worked as Legal Counsel for an Oklahoma banking institution. She received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude in Photojournalism with a minor in Humanities from the University of Central Oklahoma and her law degree with honors from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she is a member of the Order of the Coif. While completing her law degree, she served as an Articles Editor for the American Indian Law Review and earned a Certificate of Achievement from the Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy. She is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Vickie is responsible for IEL membership, social media, and academic outreach. She also directly oversees the development of various IEL conferences and programs and works closely with conference co-chairs and faculty. Vickie has a certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace from USF Corporate Training and Professional Education, and she works closely with IEL’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.
Vice President, The Center for American and International Law
Director, Institute for Transnational Arbitration and Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law
jray@cailaw.org
+1.972.244.3411
Jay E. Ray is vice president at The Center for American and International Law, where he directs both the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law. Before joining CAIL, he was general counsel for Pipeline Integrity Resources, Inc., and practiced commercial and appellate litigation in private practice for 18 years. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Arlington and his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
Ray has extensive experience managing nonprofit legal associations. He served as chair of the American Bar Association's 150,000-member Young Lawyers Division in 2006-07 and was an officer or council member of that organization for nine years. He has also served on the council of the ABA Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division for 13 years and on the Lawyers Conference of the ABA Judicial Division, and served in the ABA House of Delegates from 2003 to 2021.
He previously served on the boards of directors of the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers. He has worked with numerous young lawyer associations in the United States, Canada and Europe, and has presented on leadership, diversity, management and planning topics at conferences and events nationwide.
Vice President, The Center for American and International Law
Director, Institute for Law Enforcement Administration
gsmith@cailaw.org
+1.972.244.3430
Gregory Smith serves as a vice president at The Center for American and International Law and director of the Institute for Law Enforcement Administration (ILEA), where he oversees program management, curriculum development and organizational operations across the Schools of Leadership, the Schools for Law Enforcement Ethics and the Law Enforcement Technical Assistance Program. For more than 50 years, ILEA has been one of the nation's premier learning centers for law enforcement executives, managers, and supervisors, adapting successful private-sector models to set a standard of excellence in law enforcement training.
Smith has served ILEA for more than 28 years. Earlier in his career, he served as a Texas peace officer with the Baylor University Medical Police Department in Dallas, where he managed Crime Prevention and Community Services and helped establish programs to reduce crime and prevent workplace violence.
A veteran of more than 21 years with the U.S. Army, Indiana National Guard and Army Reserve, Smith rose in rank from private to major, serving in the Armored Cavalry, Infantry and Military Police at the company, battalion, brigade and theater levels. He is co-author of "Navigating Diversity: An Advocate's Guide Through the Maze of Race, Gender, Religion and More," a qualified administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and a National Training Associate with the Insight Learning Foundation. During college, he also worked as a radio DJ on WBSU in Muncie, Indiana, a classical and jazz station.
Smith holds a Bachelor of Science in sociology from Ball State University and a Master of Arts in sociology, with a specialization in social psychology, from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is active in his community as a youth football coach, basketball referee and cycling instructor at the Metropolitan YMCA of Dallas.