Mark R. Thomas

Mark R. “Hawk” Thomas is Managing Partner at The Reid Group, where he develops and counsels selected enterprises through its Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs), Reid Law PC and Reid Ventures LLC. Colonel Thomas is lawyer, executive, engineer, aviator, and military officer with more than thirty years combined experience and tested leadership in technology development, federal contracting, and legal advocacy. Colonel Thomas advises, represents, and fosters entities seeking to establish, protect, or enhance their presence in government markets. His practice is exclusively tailored to guiding businesses through the legal complexities, bureaucratic barriers, technical challenges, and business decisions inherent to procurement transactions and disputes involving commercial enterprises and government agencies. Colonel Thomas provides clients with specialized counsel arising from a unique confluence of senior acquisition credentials, broad technology expertise, seasoned business acumen, and focused legal skills, together with the intrinsic synergy and superior value arising from these qualifications in a single source. An electrical engineer and flight test officer by training, Colonel Thomas’ exemplary military career included assignments as technology architect of the U.S. Air Force’s conventional weapons portfolio; the Defense Department’s future joint, interagency, and multinational war fighting capability; and the federal government’s combined nuclear command and control system. He coauthored the first joint tactical missile technology roadmap in the Department of Defense, led an unprecedented government-industry initiative to provide military launch and on-orbit support for commercial satellite systems, and spearheaded the most successful military aircraft modernization program in the United Kingdom’s recent history. Colonel Thomas later commanded the U.S. Air Force’s fledgling Space Development & Test Group, leading more t

The University of Denver Sturm College of Law

J.D. (2007) | Law

2004 - 2007

Honors: Ben S. Wendelken Scholar; Denver University Law Review (Business Editor)

Air University

M.S. (1998) | Military Operational Art and Science

1997 - 1998

Honors: Research Paper Award ("Non-Lethal Weaponry: A Framework For Future Integration")

Troy University

MBA (1987) | Management

1985 - 1987

Honors: Cum laude

University of New Mexico

B.S. (1984) | Electrical Engineering

1980 - 1984

Honors: Minors: Mathematics; Aerospace Science. US Air Force ROTC Scholarship Cadet

Managing Counsel

Reid Law PC

2007 - Current

Colorado Bar Association  # 38996

Member

2007 - Current

Christian Legal Society

Legal Aid Volunteer

2007 - Current

Activities: Pro bono faith-based legal aid at clinics in the Denver metro area, including the Denver Rescue Mission, Providence Ministries, Samaritan House, and the More Life Center.

Federal Bar Association

Member

2007 - Current

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Member

1984 - Current

Military Officers Association of America

Member

1984 - Current

Colorado

Since 2007

10th Circuit

Since 2010

Federal Circuit

Since 2010

U.S. Supreme Court

Since 2015

US Court of Federal Claims

Since 2009

US District Court (Colorado)

Since 2008

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