Ronald Kenneth Westray Jr. (born June 13, 1970, in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American jazz trombonist, composer, and educator.

from South Carolina State University and a Master of Arts degree from Eastern Illinois University.

He has played with Marcus Roberts, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (since its inception in 1993), and has been a regular member of the Mingus Big Band.

[1] In 2005 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2009 he was appointed to the Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance at York University.