DR. GEORGE WOODROW JR.

A phenomenal educational leader and trailblazer hailing from Orange, Texas. Dr. George Woodrow, Jr. served 33 years as principal of five schools and worked in the central office for Dallas ISD. An alumnus of the University of North Texas, he taught graduate courses in educational leadership for two decades. Woodrow authored and published three education books. One is a university textbook, The Pyramid Approach. He is the first Black assistant superintendent hired in Hinesville, Georgia; the first Black city councilman elected in Sunnyvale, Texas; the first Black quarterback at Kilgore College and UNT; and he is the first Black quarterback in Texas Junior College history. Woodrow was inducted into the Kilgore College Football Hall of Fame.