The Pasadena Independent School District’s Board of Trustees was recently named the Region 4 Outstanding School Board. With the honor, the board is now in the running to become one of five Texas Honor Boards and the state’s Outstanding School Board of the Year.

Pasadena ISD Superintendent Dr. Kirk Lewis nominated the seven-member board for the honor. The Texas Association of School Administrators will announce the five Honor Boards in August. The five boards selected will interview before a panel and the Outstanding School Board will be announced at the Texas Association of School Administrators/Texas Association of School Boards Convention in September.

The Pasadena Board of Trustees consists of Marshall Kendrick, president; Vickie Morgan, vice president; Frank Braden, secretary; Jerry Speer, assistant secretary, and members Carmen Orozco; Fred Roberts and Nelda Sullivan.

“Our board members live by one sole mission – and that’s ‘to do what’s best for kids.’ That is the foundation of every decision they make,” Lewis said. “I am very fortunate to work with such a fine group of individuals.”

In 2003, the same group of Pasadena board members received Region 4’s top award and was named one of five Texas Honor Boards. The Board was also recognized with the same honors in 1997.

“There are three kinds of people…those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask what happened. Clearly, the Pasadena ISD Board of Trustees are people who as a team make things happen,” said Dr. Bill McKinney, executive director of Region 4.