HILL COUNTY (March 21, 2010)—Despite cold temperatures and gusty winds, crews planned to return Sunday to Aquilla Lake to resume the search for longtime Fort Worth lawyer Tom Zachry, 66, who’s been missing since a bass boat capsized early Friday.

Hill County Emergency Management Coordinator Tom Hemrick said searchers are in "recovery mode" and do not expect to find Zachry alive.

Zachry, 66, a Waco native, Baylor Law School graduate and longtime Fort Worth lawyer who won the Republican primary race for Tarrant County’s 432nd State District Court on March 2.

He didn’t face a Democratic opponent in the fall.

Friends said Zachry's lifelong goal was to be a judge.

Zachry and another man identified as Gerald Mack, 75, a retired mechanical engineer from Fort Worth, were on the lake Friday afternoon when their bass boat capsized.

Mack was able to cling to the overturned boat for about four hours until rescuers arrived.

Zachry, however, went under as he tried to swim to shore, authorities said.

The boat capsized early Friday afternoon, but it was close to 5 p.m. before someone spotted it and called authorities.

Crews reached Mack who was still clinging to the boat and rushed him ashore.

He was taken to Whitney Medical Center for treatment of severe hypothermia.

Officials said the temperature of the water in the lake Friday was 57 degrees.

Game wardens used side-scanning sonar in the search for Zachry and divers joined the effort as well, but could only stay in the water for about 15 minutes at a time.

Officials say it was the first drowning on the lake since 1984.

According to his law office Web site, Zachry was born in 1943 in Waco.

His father, W. M. Zachry, was a trial lawyer.

Zachry graduated in June 1961 from Waco High School, earned a BBA from Texas Christian University and graduated from the Baylor Law School in August 1966.

He worked as an assistant district attorney in the late 1960s in Tarrant County and had been in private practice since.

He defeated incumbent 432nd District Court Judge Ruben Gonzalez, Jr. in the March 2 Republican Primary and wasn’t facing a Democrat in the November election.