In Austin, Pecos, El Paso, and San Luis Obispo, Brady remained deeply involved in the social, political, and business milieu.

[35] He also helped organize a circulating library intended to supply the teachers in the county with professional books,[36] and in 1900 taught physical geography at the Elgin summer normal.

[61] This included teaching at summer normals in 1901,[62][63] 1903,[64] and 1904,[65][66] grading papers from examinations for teachers' certificates,[67] and even selecting instructors for the newly formed Girls' Industrial College in Denton.

[86] While at the university Brady was involved in committees related to the final ball,[87][88] the auditing of expenses for the school yearbook,[89] and celebrations for Texas Independence Day.

[92] In the month after graduation, Brady traveled to Texarkana, Texas, where he was the best man at the wedding of Roy Lee Walker,[93][94] the quartermaster for the Confederate Home in Austin.

[109][112] After the verdict, according to The Galveston Daily News, "hundreds" of people came up to Brady and Judge Isaacks to shake their hands "for their prompt attention to the case and their narrow avertence of a lynching".

[120] During these proceedings, Brady was said by the El Paso Herald to be "active in pushing the case ... towards a carrying out of the judgment of the district court, calling for hanging, as strongly as he knows how.

[138][note 4] Immediately after the conviction Brady began prosecuting another murder case,[138][143] this time of James L. Wright, who was charged with shooting his Pecos neighbor C. C.

[144][145] The case was tried in Midland County due to a change in venue;[note 5] Judge Isaacks went as far as to coordinate a special train run by the Pecos Valley Southern Railway to gather further potential jurors,[150] but after examining 176, was able to seat only eight.

[143][note 6] Brady remained the district attorney into at least February 1914, when he extracted a confession from Fernando Subia to shooting and killing city marshal T. Y.

[160][161][note 7] In 1917 the El Paso County Court at Law was created, and Brady was chosen by Governor James E. Ferguson from among three candidates for the judgeship.

[185][note 10] Brady was given two weeks vacation by the county commissioners at the end,[188][189] spending it at Cloudcroft, New Mexico;[190] he placed his newly built home to let until September,[191] when the fall term convened.

During the race he voiced his support for prohibition,[213] and took out a half-page newspaper advertisement, along with county attorney William H. Fryer[214] and judge Walter D. Howe[215] of the thirty-fourth judicial district, calling it a lie to declare that licensed liquor dealers were uniformly law abiding.

[222] Though he spent at least $430 (equivalent to $8,700 in 2023) campaigning,[223] Brady appeared unopposed on the primary ballot[224] – part of an engineering feat by the local Democratic Party, which aimed to reduce distractions by lining up the ticket ahead of time and supporting existing officeholders.

[256] Brady thus continued presiding over some criminal matters,[257] including a March trial in which a police surgeon, John A. Hardy,[258] was found not guilty of hitting a hotel proprietor with a pistol.

[267] Brady shut his courtroom during the second week of October, as did all state and federal judges in El Paso, in an effort to slow the spread of the Spanish flu.

[268] In December he denied a writ of habeas corpus to Charles Holman, who, at his trial for traffic violations, was held in contempt and ordered confined for 24 hours for using the word "damn" in the courtroom.

[270][271] In early 1919 Brady visited Pecos, where he still owned land; upon his return, he told the Herald that all indications suggested oil and gas would be found there.

[303][304][note 18] At points in his career Brady also served as an agent for the National Petroleum Finance Corporation,[308] and worked in Santa Barbara as an oil attorney.

[316] The organization was one of several efforts to provide greater financial relief to the agricultural industry,[317] particularly through loans to farmers,[318] and involved coordination with the Federal Land Bank Association.

[324] Likewise, during the 1908 election which followed his move to Pecos, Brady was appointed as a Reeves County delegate to the state Democratic convention,[325] and president of a Bryan-Kern club.

[328][329] That year Brady endorsed Alfred John Harper for a second term as a judge for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,[330] and attended the state Democratic convention in Houston.

[345] Brady was in charge of the San Luis Obispo headquarters on Monterey Street,[346] and worked to set up affiliate clubs throughout the county, such as in Oceano,[344] Pismo Beach,[345] and Arroyo Grande.

[348] He spent only a short time in Creston, moving to San Luis Obispo thereafter;[4] he was living there by 1933, when the Central Committee endorsed him for a position as assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of California.

[349] The same year he campaigned for Proposition 4, which would make certain not-for-profit educational institutions tax-exempt, visiting the offices of the Pismo Times and penning a half-page article in its pages about the cause.

[388] The club placed Brady in charge of a committee to raise money and provide management for the first annual fair and barbeque in Pecos, held in September 1911.

That year he attended banquets thrown by the Chamber of Commerce for Senator Morris Sheppard, and by the Knights of Columbus (of which Brady remained a member[406]) for Bishop Anthony Joseph Schuler, both at the Hotel Paso del Norte.

[407][408] Brady escorted Sheppard during part of his time in El Paso,[409] and stood on stage during the senator's speech on "Christian Civilization and Fraternalism".

[418][419] With the American entry into World War I in 1917, Brady purchased $100 of Liberty bonds from Judge McClintock,[420] and urged others to do the same;[421][422] he also installed a flag above his courtroom chair as a statement of patriotism.

[451] Soon after moving to El Paso in 1915, Will Brady took a home on Fort Boulevard,[452] then purchased two lots of land along Grant Avenue and Rosewood Street – half an hour by streetcar from the courthouse[453] – for $1,500, with plans to build a modern residence;[454][455][456] he ended up contracting for a five-room bungalow costing $3,500.