CASTLE HILLS
ANNEXATION by Mark Miller | photos courtesy of City of Lewisville
L
ike other local politicians whose careers have been in the business world, TJ Gilmore enjoys helping people solve problems more than having to ask them for their vote. So now that he’s been elected the new mayor of Lewisville, he can put that preference into practice. The 48-year-old Yuma, Arizona, native won a four-way race May 1 with 53.1 percent of the vote. He officially took over May 12 from Rudy Durham, who declined to run for a third term. His first city council meeting as Mayor was May 17. “You can ask my wife (Tanya). When something comes to me, my answer is ‘How can I fix it.’ That’s my nature,” he said. “People have issues, and my job is to understand what the issue is, and how can we make things better. That’s what I love about this. I love fixing stuff and improving stuff. Maybe it’s not broken, but how can we do it better.”
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