Sugar Land Independent School District #17 was a school district headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas .
6-496: It was created under a state law that was approved and became law on March 18, 1918. Under state law, there was a 7-person board, and at least two members were required to be women. The first school board president was M. R. Wood, the designer of Sugar Land's first school, and Mary Anna Collins Woods was the first superintendent. Sugar Land's first public school had opened in 1912. In the years 1924-1930 Carrin Foreman (died March 1, 1932),
12-523: A mentor. In 1966, Foreman received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . Percy Foreman had two marriages with the second, to Marguerite Obert, lasting from April 21, 1957 until her death in 1979. Foreman adopted his son, William Foreman, with his first wife and had his daughter, Marguerite Foreman, with his second wife. His sister Carrin Foreman was superintendent of
18-506: The new FBISD. As of 2017 the only remaining building operated by this district is the Sugar Land Auditorium, which as of that year is also the final public building that remained from the era when Sugar Land was a company town of Imperial Sugar . Schools were segregated racially. For white children and others not black: For black children: Percy Foreman Percy Eugene Foreman (June 21, 1902 – August 25, 1988)
24-577: The sister of Percy Foreman , was the district superintendent. When she married she gave up her position. It was dissolved in 1959 when it merged with the Missouri City Independent School District to form the Fort Bend Independent School District . Voters approved the consolidation on April 18 that year. Edward Mercer was the final superintendent of Sugar Land ISD, and he became assistant superintendent of
30-539: Was a criminal defense attorney from Houston, Texas . Foreman was born near Bold Springs, Texas. Foreman moved to Livingston, Texas , when he was six years old. He was the son of Ransom Parson Hill Foreman and William Pinckney (Rogers) Foreman, a former sheriff of Polk County, Texas . Percy Foreman attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia for one year, graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1927, and
36-1186: Was admitted to the Texas Bar on January 17, 1928. He went on to become one of the best known trial lawyers in Texas, with the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association creating the Percy Foreman Lawyer of the Year Award in 1984. Foreman was a respected master of tactics. He lost only 53 of 1500 death-penalty cases and only one case resulted in execution (Steve Mitchell, electrocuted in Texas in 1951). Foreman's clients included General Edwin Walker , James Earl Ray , Charles Harrelson , Candy Mossler , and various organized crime kingpins. Jack Ruby requested that Foreman represent him after he shot Lee Harvey Oswald . Famed defense attorneys Richard Haynes and Dick DeGuerin both worked with Foreman early in their careers and credit him as
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