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2025 Title Sponsor
A Program of
Thank You!
The 11th Annual Lubbock Veterans Day Parade is an event designed to honor veterans and all who have served in Lubbock. Veterans Day is observed on November 11 in all states and is usually a state and federal holiday. This event is for veterans and their families, and the city of Lubbock, to bring the community and region together. SAVE THE DATE FOR 2026 - The parade will occur on November 14, 2026.
The 2026 theme is: "tba" - celebrate our American flag and the Pledge of Allegiance! Raise your American and branch flags and showcase your organization and family's many generations of service to our country!
Now seeking area nominees for 2026 Grand Marshall - email recommendations - please include bio and photo
The 2025 Grand Marshal: Walter "Walt Huffman" - Dean Emeritus; Adjunct Professor of Law; Former W. Frank Newton Professor of Law
Admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dean Huffman joined the Texas Tech School of Law after a distinguished 25-year career in public service. As Judge Advocate General and the top military lawyer for the U.S. Army, Dean Huffman stepped down in 2001 after managing and leading a diverse legal workforce of more than 4,000 full-time uniformed and civilian attorneys and paralegals, and support personnel in the United States and 17 foreign countries. During that time, he was the first uniformed lawyer since World War II selected to serve on the Texas State Bar Board of Directors.
Dean Huffman led the first U.S. Army delegation to China to reestablish relationships with the Chinese Army and led the first Defense Department delegation to sign written cooperative agreements between military legal agencies in Russia and the United States. He was awarded the Hungarian Distinguished Service Medal for extensive work with the post-Warsaw Pact Hungarian military, focusing on the role of the military in a democracy. Dean Huffman also worked to further democracy and civilian control of the military in Latin America and was a three-time Army delegate to the Inter-American Bar Association, which is composed of military and civilian lawyers from North, Central, and South America.
As personal legal counsel to the Army Chief of Staff and other principal Army staff, Dean Huffman developed legal positions on significant issues ranging from civilian detention and trial procedures in the Balkans to contract law and ethics rules associated with the Army Transformation acquisition effort. In coordination with the Department of Justice, he managed the Army's defensive and affirmative litigation effort, including an ADR program honored by the U.S. Attorney General as "Best in America." Dean Huffman has personally handled the legal and public relations aspects of the most high-profile cases in recent Army history.
2025 Grand Marshal
Walt Huffman
2026 Parade Date: November 14, 2026. Set up 8:30 a.m. Start-Up at 10 a.m. - SAVE THE DATE
(Participant set up time from 8 to 9:30 a.m., and then the parade will begin at 10 a.m.)
Parade Location: The parade will start at the East parking lot of First Baptist Church on Broadway; participants are urged to enter through Avenue V. The route will begin off Avenue U, proceed down Broadway to the east, and then Head North on Avenue M to the Civic Center Parking lot.
2026 Sponsors
2026 Title Sponsor
2026 Veteran Advocate Sponsors
Friends of Veteran Sponsors
Media Sponsors
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