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County prosecutor asks commissioners for three new positions and 6.5% attorney pay increase
Summary
At a June 2025 Lubbock County budget work session, the county prosecutor outlined requests to add three staff members, arm and assign investigators to court coverage, and raise starting attorney pay by 6.5% to address turnover and recruitment challenges.
Miss Stanek, the presenter for the county's criminal office, asked Lubbock County Commissioners Court during the June 2025 budget work session to approve three new positions and to consider a 6.5% pay increase for attorneys.
Stanek said recruitment and retention remain the office’s ‘‘continued issues,’’ noting that recent departures have outpaced hires. ‘‘Whenever the feds are ready to take 2 of them, they've offered them jobs and they're accepting, and one's going into private practice,’’ she said, describing how experienced staff are leaving for federal and private-sector positions.
She asked the court to fund: one legal assistant dedicated to the misdemeanor division (seven misdemeanor attorneys currently share a single legal assistant); one investigator assigned for courtroom and field work to increase safety and investigative capacity; and a third attorney for the appellate…
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