serviceyears laterwork relations children birth_place party service birth_date article_title name department
1966 -- 2007 private security consultant fourth wife , sidney calvert ryan three adult children from first marriage rural oklahoma , usa democrat united states 10 august 1945 phil ryan -lrb- sheriff -rrb-
 phillip r. ryan , sr. . texas rangers , wise county , texas sheriff
phil ryan -lrb- sheriff -rrb-

`` for other people with the same name , see phil ryan -lrb- disambiguation -rrb- phillip r. `` phil '' ryan -lrb- born august 10 , 1945 -rrb- is a former texas ranger and the three-term sheriff of wise county , texas .
he entered law enforcement in 1966 at age 21 , initially serving as a police officer in pasadena in harris county , texas .
he later joined the texas department of public safety as a highway patrolman assigned to houston and cleveland , texas .
in 1976 , he was promoted to highway patrol sergeant , which took him to humble , texas .
he applied for and was accepted to service in the texas ranger division and served as a ranger in decatur , which also covered jack , montague , and clay counties .
as a texas ranger , ryan worked many cases that made him well known not only throughout the state , but throughout the nation .
he is most notable for his arrest of serial killer henry lee lucas , but also was the texas ranger assigned to the ricky lee and sharon green case , two of the most notorious serial killers in wise county , texas history .
