Trustees pick Scroggins for WFISD school board
The Wichita Falls Independent Board of Trustees voted Thursday evening to choose a retired school psychologist to join their ranks.
Diann Scroggins will take the opening created when former member Mike Rucker resigned. She will serve the 17 months remaining on Rucker's four-year term. She will represent District 2, which encompasses parts of central, eastern and northern Wichita Falls.
Scroggins was selected from a field of four applicants after the board deliberated about three hours in closed session Thursday.
Scroggins is a retired Dallas ISD school psychologist who served on the WFISD Safe Return Task Force during the COVID-19 pandemic and helped make back-to-school plans for the 2020-2021 school year.
She is part of the local NAACP, attends Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and is a consultant to work with parents and teachers at Booker T. Washington Elementary School, according to her resume.
She is also active in the Early Childhood Consortium of Wichita Falls and the BTW Alumni Association and Community Archives.
Scroggins graduated in 1967 from Booker T. Washington High School, which was a casualty of integration in 1969 in Wichita Falls. She earned a bachelor of arts degree and a master of arts degree from Texas Woman's University in Denton.
She retired from the Dallas school district in August 2013 with 27 years of service in positions including licensed specialist in school psychology, behavior specialist and program specialist and supervisor.
Her other work experience ranges from psychological associate and residential program director at the Wichita Falls MHMR Center in the 1970s to juvenile offenders program manager and residential unit director at the Fort Worth State School in the 1980s.
She will begin her term at the next school board meeting.
The other applicants were Valerie "Penny" Rhodes, Andrea Williams and Ronnie Williams.
This article originally appeared on Wichita Falls Times Record News: Trustees pick Scroggins for WFISD school board
