32ND ANNIVERSARY BANQUET

"WINR 32:  A Second Life"

Friday, Oct. 23rd, 2009

SPEAKER: Ms. Erma Johnson Hadley
Interim Chancellor
Tarrant County College District

Student Chairs:
Janjura Williams (NE)
Kelly Daves (SC)
Vatima Fleming (SE)
Tahsha Mason (SE)

Photos by Karen Raulerson
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Photos by Cheyenne Jones
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Information on our speaker this year:
    Tarrant County College Interim Chancellor Erma Johnson Hadley was one of nine recipients from across the country of the 2009 Distinguished Leadership Award. Hadley, nominated by Leadership Fort Worth, received the recognition at the Community Leadership Association annual conference in Long Beach, CA.

    An early graduate of Leadership Fort Worth, Hadley has been actively involved in the Fort Worth/Tarrant County community for more than 30 years, lending her support to many boards, commissions and community activities at the international, national, state, regional and local levels. Her activities have included serving as chairman of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board where she traveled to many foreign countries as DFW pursued additional international routes; chairman of the North Texas Commission Board of Directors and chairman of the Tarrant County Hospital District Board of Managers. She has served as a national officer of The Links, Incorporated, where she was a member of three delegations sent to oversee the building of four-room schools in the bush country surrounding Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. Additionally, she has worked with People to People Ambassador Program to Russia as a human resources consultant and participated in Fort Worth Sister Cities' inaugural trips to Nagaoka, Japan, and the Kingdom of Swaziland.

    Her community involvement also includes the United Way of Metropolitan Tarrant County, the Trinity River Authority of Texas, the Fort Worth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce, Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and Streams and Valleys. Hadley also served as President of the Fort Worth Girls Club Board of Directors was a founder of the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society and the second female member inducted into the Rotary Club of Fort Worth.

    "I have always worked in this community because I felt I owed so much back and because I thought I had something to offer," said Hadley. "I have never expected anything in return. It is very rewarding to be recognized in such a special way."

    Hadley said Tarrant County College District has been most supportive in her work on behalf of the Fort Worth community. She said she appreciates the support she has received from TCC Chancellors Leonardo de la Garza, Joe B. Rushing and C. A. Roberson and her TCC colleagues. "As I accept the award, I'll be accepting for Tarrant County College as well."