Phillips Reelected to State Association Board

Austin— Quinton Phillips of Fort Worth ISD has been reelected to a three-year term on the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors, representing TASB Region 11, Position B. The election was held during the Association’s 2023 Delegate Assembly on Sept. 30 in Dallas.

A native of Fort Worth, Phillips joined Fort Worth ISD Board of Education in 2019. 

He has served as a Steering Committee and Advisory Council member for the district’s Paul Laurence Dunbar Young Men’s Leadership Academy. Currently, he serves as a member of the Race Equity Committee and the Race Equity Task Force for the Early Learning Alliance. He also has served as member of the Citizen’s Oversight Committee. 

Phillips is a professor in the Criminal Justice Department of Texas Christian University. He has spent over a decade helping to facilitate a cultural diversity and leadership camp for high school students and has now served the Multicultural Alliance for two decades. He was a juvenile probation officer for nearly 10 years. He also served as a program coordinator with “Da” Village Education Center and a behavioral interventionist with Lena Pope Home Inc.  

In addition, he is a board member for the Minority Leaders and Citizens Council, an alumni of Leadership ISD, and a founding partner of Community Frontline.  

He earned a bachelor’s degree in social work from Prairie View A&M University. He is also a graduate of Palmer Theological Seminary at Eastern University where he received a master’s in theological studies.