Fort Worth ISD will have new leadership after Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath on March 24 appointed a new superintendent and nine-member board of managers, marking the next step in the state’s takeover of the city’s largest school district.
Peter B. Licata is the new superintendent of the nearly 68,000-student district.
The managers who will assume the governing authority previously held by locally elected trustees are:
- Bobby Ahdieh, chief operating officer of Texas A&M Fort Worth.
- Rosa Marie Berdeja, an immigration lawyer.
- Luis A. Galindo, a lawyer.
- Laurie George, Fort Worth ISD parent and former educator.
- Pete Geren, former U.S. congressman and CEO and president of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation.
- Courtney Lewis, Fort Worth-area president of First Bank Texas.
- Frost Prioleau, executive chairman at Fort Worth-based Simpli.fi.
- Jay Stegall, business owner who has worked in restaurant, retail and consumer packaged goods.
- Tennessee Walker, Fort Worth ISD parent and lawyer.
FWISD’s elected trustees will continue holding office but without governing power…