Ragsdale is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and holds a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law.

In 2013, his office worked to prosecute a smuggling ring which had been mislabeling the country-of-origin of honey, to skirt anti-dumping laws.

[3] In 2014 as deputy director of ICE he participated in a high-profile bust of an online child pornography ring.

[2] Trump replaced Ragsdale with Thomas Homan on January 30, 2017, shortly after he fired Acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates.

[8] In May 2017 he resigned from ICE to take a position with GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in the country.