MAY 6 POLLS PROVIDE PLENTY POLITICAL PICKS

By Burt Levine, Political Writer, Style Magazine

Fort Bend ISD features three positions on this ballot, including Oscar Saenz, a husband and father with military and business experience for Pos. 1, and Dr. Shirley Rose Gilliam for Pos. 4, who earned BS and M.Ed. degrees from the University of Houston and her Ed.D. from Texas A&M University. She is a wife and mom with three decades of Fort Bend ISD teaching and management experience at every level, including home and business building. Angel Hicks is running for Pos. 5. She has a University of Houston accounting and teaching background and is a mother of three.

Humble ISD features Humble ISD Trustee Marques Holmes, who graduated from Historically Black College and University, North Carolina A&T and has decades of high-tech entrepreneurial and local community leadership. Holmes is a husband, father, and friend of Humble ISD.

Katy ISD features Cicely Taylor to becomes the first woman minority to win an election there. Taylor is a wife and mom to an academically and professionally accomplished son and daughter. She earned BA and M.Ed. degrees. She has a track record of proven leadership in the Katy community.

Xavier Herrera has served on the Stafford School Board and on Stafford Economic, Development Commissions. He’s a lifetime Stafford citizen who has been with his wife, Prinscilla, since they met in high school working at James Coney Island. He was elected last year to City Council and is running for a full term. With his wife and three sons, he’s incredibly involved in school and civic life in Stafford and its bright future.