Thomas Lloyd Smith

Thomas Lloyd Smith is an experienced city attorney and a former management consultant with a track record of using his expertise to provide meaningful advice and work products that help clients chart their courses, negotiate challenging obstacles, and achieve their goals.

Thomas served nearly six years as the City Attorney for the City of Antioch providing legal advice, counsel, and work products to the city council, city manager, department heads, boards, commissions, and committees. He managed in-house staff for the City Attorney’s Office including two assistant city attorneys, an administrative analyst, and an office assistant. Thomas also oversaw all city litigation and regularly settled cases resolving high risk matters. In December 2024, Thomas was awarded the “Key to the City of Antioch” for his service to the city.

Thomas has provided advice on the full spectrum of municipal law issues. Thomas is well versed in employment law and holds an Association of Workplace Investigators certificate (AWI-CH). He has conducted and overseen personnel investigations on a range matters including allegations of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation as well as employee misconduct. He has also participated in administrative hearings. Thomas also has significant experience in public contracts, public bidding, land use, the Brown Act, the Public Records Act, the Political Reform Act, and other conflicts of interest laws.

Thomas regularly engages in structured problem solving to help clients address challenges and achieve their goals. Thomas worked on a range of city projects and initiatives designed to address important challenges and enhance the quality of life for residents.

Thomas has worked with city staff to carry out the following projects and initiatives: creation and implementation of a zero-emission clean energy fleet transition plan including contract agreements for charging stations and purchase agreements for electric vehicles; formation of a city rent program with ordinances supporting rent stabilization, anti-tenant harassment, and just cause eviction; lease and conversion of a privately owned hotel into a a non-congregate bridge housing program designed to house unsheltered residents, provide them with support services, facilitate their return to the workforce, and transition them to permanent housing; contracting technology designed to identify, locate, and track active gunfire within the city to support of the police department’s efforts to quickly respond to gunfire incidents; transition of a police department to a new computer-aided dispatch and records management system; creation of a mental health crisis response team to respond to low level 911 calls that require support from mental health professionals; and formation of a civilian police oversight commission with the purpose of advising the city council, city manager, and chief of police on the administration of the police department and on matters of public safety within the city to ensure that the police department's policies, practices, and customs conform to national standards of constitutional policing; and negotiation and drafting of a memorandum of agreement to resolve the United States Department of Justice’s investigations of a city’s police department.

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