A West Dallas native retires this week after 19 years in the City of Dallas housing department.
Dallas Free Press reporters Jennie Trejo and Camilo Diaz Jr. interviewed Cynthia Rogers-Ellickson earlier this fall at the West Dallas Multipurpose Center — the place the City of Dallas recruited her to manage 19 years ago. She didn’t get the job, but only because when then-assistant city director Joey Zapata interviewed her, he deemed her overqualified.
“So he recommended me to the housing department,” Rogers-Ellickson told them.…