Joy, Latrelle Bright 2022-10-31
This interview features Latrelle Bright Joy as she discusses her late career in law and her transition into being a Lubbock City Council member. In this interview, Joy describes her experience working with collaborative family law and some of the people she worked with while she was a lawyer. She then moves on to explain her job as a city council member and the projects she saw through as a city council member. The interview closes with Joy reflecting on what she thinks city council members need to know and learn about before they get into office.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Latrelle Bright Joy
Additional Parties Recorded:
Date: June 22, 2022
Location: Lubbock, TX
Interviewer: Elissa Stroman
Length:01:11:01 (1 hour 11 minutes)
Abstract
Introduction and working at a law firm; How practicing law influenced her parenting; The collaborative divorce process; Lawyers and Judges she worked with; the 2000s; Stepping into the role of a city council member in 2012; Things the city council started working on after she was elected; The outer loop around the city; downtown redevelopment; Lubbock’s homeless population; Her perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic; Other projects she and the city council have worked on; Citizens voting on bonds
Access Information
Original Recording Format: born digital
Recording Format Notes: patrons may listen to audio in our reading room
Transcript: transcript available on dspace <https://hdl.handle.net/10605/376555 >
Related Interview: Joy, Latrelle Bright 2022-06-22; Joy, Latrelle Bright 2022-08-17; Joy, Latrelle Bright 2022-11-29
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