‘The youngest Grand Master’

   

UPDATE: October 12, 2023:

The Old Fashioned Masonic Podcast endeavors to explain what is happening in the Grand Lodge of Texas, but I don’t feel any better informed after watching this.

You know of the Youngest Entered Apprentice, but have you heard about the new Grand Master who’s 38 years old? MW Bro. Brad Billings was installed in the Grand East of the Grand Lodge of Texas this afternoon. I have to assume he currently is the youngest man to hold such an office in the United States.

This is not to say he is new to the fraternity. Billings was made a Mason in 2006 at Trinity Valley Lodge 1048 in Dallas. He became a Founding Member of the Masonic Society when we launched in 2008. A year later, he was named a Full Member of Texas Lodge of Research (and Master in 2015). He served as Master of his mother lodge in 2012, and became a brother in several of lodges in Texas, including Tranquility 2000.

He has served with commensurate successes in both the York and Scottish rites, and holds memberships in various invitational orders and Masonic education societies.

Of course there is life without the temple. Brad is a graduate of Texas Tech University. While a student, he met Brittany; they wed in 2012, and are parents of a young son. He is employed in the pharmaceuticals industry.

I do not know Bro. Billings, nor know of his plans, but he sounds like an outstanding Mason, and I send my congratulations to him and to the brethren of the Lone Star State.