Name: Roberto Martinez.<\/p>\n
Department: Courts Division.<\/p>\n
Rank: Deputy.<\/p>\n
How long with department: 9 years Sheriff\u2019s Office, 5 years Courts Division.<\/p>\n
Roles: FTO within Courts Division and primary deputy assigned to Family Court.<\/p>\n
Education (high school, college\/degrees): Graduated from Lubbock High, Associate Degree in Criminal Justice from SPC.<\/p>\n
Professional Certification Level: Master Jailer License \/ Basic Peace Officer license.<\/p>\n
Honors\/highlights: Married 20 years, four kids. Currently 6 years in Honor Guard last 2 years as Adjutant, Licensed Instructor, 7 years U.S. Army active service.<\/p>\n
Why did you choose this profession? To continue to be of service like I did with the military.<\/p>\n
How do you deal with stressful situations? I think with me joining the military right out of high school and being deployed several times, it helped control that mindset \u2013 to handle it bit by bit, work on the problem that\u2019s in front of you and move on to the next.<\/p>\n
Hobbies & interests: Love going to the movies with my wife now that our kids are grown, enjoy going to different ramen places (Fun Noodle Bar is my favorite), I enjoy traveling. Every year my wife and I go to Savannah, Georgia for St. Patrick\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
Community involvement beyond work: All my community involvement is tied to the Honor Guard. I love supporting Texas South Plains Honor Flight where we do a wall of honor for local veterans on their way to and from Washington, D.C. Also, the Fourth of July celebrations draw in a huge crowd. They\u2019re a great way to show support to the citizens of Lubbock. There are many others like the Christmas Parade for Texas Girls and Boys Ranch, a meet and greet for Special Olympics, and honoring the fallen veterans for Memorial Day.<\/p>\n
Quote: Everything happens for a reason, and it will all work out in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Name: Roberto Martinez. Department: Courts Division. Rank: Deputy. How long with department: 9 years Sheriff\u2019s Office, 5 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-416311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}