Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan yakin, Ikard ya yi aiki a matsayin alƙali na Kotun Gundumar Kotun Gundumar Wichita Falls. An nada shi shugaban Hukumar Harkokin Tsohon Soji na Texas a shekarar 1948. Daga nan Gwamna Beauford Jester a watan Nuwamba 1948 ya nada Ikard a matsayin alkali na Kotun Gundumar Shari'a ta talatin. Daga bisani an zabe shi a 1950, kuma ya yi aiki har zuwa Satumba 8, 1951. Ya kasance wakili ne a Babban Taron Demokradiyya a 1956, 1960, da kuma
A shekara ta 1968. Ya kasance shugaban majalisa na Jam'iyyar Democrat na Jihar Texas a 1960.