2024 May Lunch with a Leader Sponsored by Hart Moving & Storage Featuring Mayor Tray Payne

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Join us for our May Lunch with a Leader Sponsored by Hart Moving & Storage featuring Mayor Tray Payne!

About Tray Payne:
Tray Payne was elected to serve as the 36^th mayor of Lubbock in May 2022.
Tray is a West Texas native. He was born and raised in the small town of Post where he learned the value of hard work and good, old fashioned common sense. He is a Red Raider, having graduated from Texas Tech University in 1996 with a B.B.A of accounting. Tray later went on to earn his law degree from Oklahoma City University in 2000, and in the same year, married his wife Heidi, and promptly moved back to Lubbock to begin practicing law.
Tray joined the Lubbock County District Attorney’s office where he served under Judge Bill Sowder and Matt Powell. He served in many roles as a prosecutor, including trial chief of the 364^th District Court, Chief of homicide, as well as Special Assistant US Attorney, where he prosecuted violent felons under the Project Safe Neighborhood initiative.
In 2009, he opened his private practice law firm, known today as Payne, Powell and Truitt Law Group. Tray is also a licensed real estate broker and partner in ALL real estate and he maintains ownership in Garza County Abstract, a title company in Post.
Tray proudly serves the Lubbock Community, attends Indiana Avenue Baptist Church and is involved in numerous organizations as a volunteer, board member and philanthropist. He has a passion to travel, loves to fly fish and is an avid reader. Tray has been married to the love of his life for 21 years and is raising 4 daughters and Piper the dog.