J. Weldon Clampitte, the Executive Officer for Texas DeMolay was installed as the 2011-2012 Grand Master for DeMolay International at a ceremony in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18th, 2011.

J. Weldon Clampitte was born in Houston, Texas where has lived his entire life. He attended San Jacinto High School, Houston Community College, and the University of Houston. After a brief employment with the Bellaire Fire Department, he resigned to attend the Houston Police Academy in 1957 and was employed by the HPD for 27 years during which time he served three years in uniformed Patrol Division and Dispatchers Office. He then went into plain-clothes investigations where he spent 7 years in the Juvenile Division and 17 years as a Sergeant of Detectives in the Homicide Division. He retired from the Houston Police Department in 1983 and then became a Harris County District Attorney’s Office in where he worked as an Investigator in the Criminal District Courts, obtaining the rank of Senior Investigator at the time of retirement in February 2004.