20 Oct 2009
Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders Presided Over Dallas ISD's Desegregation Lawsuit
DALLAS–Dallas Independent School District officials, the student body and staff from Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, community members, and representatives of the federal judiciary will gather to celebrate the naming of the Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders Magnet Center for Public Service at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Judge Barefoot Sanders, a Dallas ISD graduate from north Dallas High School, presided over the district's desegregation lawsuit which, among other things, called for the creation of the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center facility and its several magnet high schools, including the Law Magnet now named in his honor. During his career of more than 50 years, Judge Sanders served in and worked with all three branches of the government-legislative, executive and judicial. During his distinguished career, he served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives (1953-1959) and he was later appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas from 1961-1965. He later worked in the Administration of President Lyndon Johnson from 1965 to 1969 and assisted with passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
The program will include performances from the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Choir and Big D Band and remarks from Judge Sanders' former staff and Dallas ISD Board Trustee for District 5 – Lew Blackburn. Also, Superintendent of Schools Michael Hinojosa and the school's principal Anthony Palagonia will make a presentation to the judge's wife, Jan Sanders.
National Center for Educational Achievement
December 2008