Deacon Clyde Davis and his wife Anita live in Tehachapi. They have three grown children and four grandchildren. He received a BSEE in Electronic Engineering from Purdue University. After graduation he worked in the aerospace industry for over 40 years. For 30 of those years he owned and ran his own company. He was ordained a Deacon in the Diocese of Orange in 1999. As part of diaconate formation he served as a volunteer chaplain in the Orange County jails. After 8 years as a volunteer he proposed that he retire from the company, sell the company to the employees and become a full time prison chaplain, leading to their move to Tehachapi in 2003. He served as the Catholic Chaplain at the California Correctional Institute (CCI) for the next 13 years. There he conducted 15 Communion Services each week, making Catholic service available to virtually every inmate on the five yards. Those services included the Segregated Housing Units (SHU), where the highest security inmates were housed. These were the only services conducted for SHU inmates in the state. In 2016 he retired for a second time to work as a consultant to the California Catholic Conference as liaison to the 34 Catholic chaplains serving the State Prisons. In 2018 he retired for a third time. In this retirement he has started How About a New Direction (HAND), a program dedicated to helping inmates assimilate into society. This program has attained only moderate success. He has written two books. A Priest Called Pancho is the life story of Msgr. Francis Pointek, a legendary priest in the southeast portion of the Diocese. A second book, But I Get to Go Hope at Night, describes his experiences as a chaplain in the Orange County jails and the State prison system. In 2020 he noticed that our 13 State prisons, 2 Federal prisons and 2 large jail complexes had no voice in the Diocese. So, he volunteered to be that voice and was given the grand title of Director of Restorative Justice, a position that he currently fills. Though officially retired from active Deacon duty, he still helps in two parishes. He is also available to give retreats and talks (and write your biography).