Prior to his service in the Assembly, Wayne was a Deputy Attorney General for 23 years from 1973 until 1996, focusing on consumer protection and child support cases.

[3] He was easily reelected by a 57% to 39% margin in 1998 after defeating Jean Roesch, a member of the Coronado Unified School District Board of Education.

[5] In 2003, he briefly ran for San Diego City Attorney but dropped his bid before the election.

Wayne originally planned to run for Donna Frye's city council seat had she been elected mayor of San Diego.

While she was serving out the remainder of her term, Wayne and his wife Mary remained busy, moving to South Africa in 2006 to help assist with that country's growing legal system.