Councilman Franklin D. Moss, Sr.

Franklin D. Moss is the son of the late Claudie Moss, Sr. and Eva Moten- Moss. His father was a barber for over 50 years in Fort Worth and the Stop Six Area.

Franklin was born and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended school at Sunrise Elementary and Dunbar Junior and Senior High School. He graduated from Dunbar High School. He attended University of Texas at Arlington and he graduated with a BA degree from Texas Wesleyan. He received his Master Degree from University of Texas at Arlington in Urban Affairs and he did advance work at UT Arlington and Harvard University.

During undergrad school, Franklin was employed at All Saints Hospital as an orderly, Housing and Urban Development as an Intern, and Ling Tomcod Vought as a sheet metal mechanic. In graduate school, he was employed as a planner and assistant to the Mayor at the City of Mansfield, Texas. After graduate school, he was employed at Tarrant County, as a planner, North Central Texas Council of Government as a Senior Planner and Regional Director of Manpower Planning, and the Fort Worth Economic Development Corporation as the Executive Director. In 1993, he started his business, Moss Real Estate and Development Group.

Franklin served on the Board of the University of Texas at Arlington Alumni Association and he is a past president of the Alumni Association. He received the Alumni of the Year for the School of Urban Affairs, UTA, and he received the Alumni of the Year from Texas Wesleyan College in 2000.

Franklin Moss was elected to the Fort Worth City Council in 1998 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2013. He has also served as President of the Texas Association of Black City Council Members.

Franklin has written the History of Mansfield, Texas, and the History of Blacks in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a Charter member of The Tarrant County Black Historic and Genealogical Society. He led the effort to start the Center for Stop Six Heritage. He has been involved in securing National Trust Designation on over 6 historical buildings in Fort Worth.

Franklin is a member of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church where he serves on the Deacon Board and is a member of the Male Chorus.

Franklin is married to Christine Chadwick Moss and they have three children, Edmond Moss! Kimberlen Simpson-Moss and Franklin Moss, Jr.

Christine Chadwick Moss

Long before the Equity and Excellence movement became a part of the fabric of education, Christine Chadwick Moss was one of the Fort Worth Independent School District’s most zealous activists, advocating for the empowerment of ALL students. Mrs. Moss has served as a Trustee of the Fort Worth Independent School District School board for 29 years. She has a long-standing reputation for providing excellent constituent services and in her honor, both an elementary school; Christine Chadwick Moss Elementary and a Salvation Army library were named.

As a retired registered nurse and a long-term care nurse consultant, Mrs. Moss holds an associate degree from Tarrant County Junior College, a long-term care administrator's license from El Centro College, and a license as a Registered Nurse. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology and Psychology from Texas Wesleyan College and a master's in Hospital Administration from Texas Woman's University. She was an adjunct professor at Tarrant County College.

Moss has served and led on many Tarrant County, State and National Boards.

Past President and board member of Texas Caucus of Black School Board Members. Past board member: National Council of Urban School Boards (CUBE), Texas Association of School Boards, Harris Health Exchange Fort Worth, Fort Worth Commission on the Status of Women, Women of Rotary, Adolescent Pregnancy & Prevention, Inc., Texas Wesleyan University Board of Visitors, Salvation Army Advisory Board, Fort Worth Museum of Science & History Board, Sickle Cell Anemia Board, and Area Agency on Aging Advisory Council.

Past Member: National Caucus of Black School Board Members, Texas Alliance of Black School Educators, Forum Fort Worth, a 1979 graduate of Leadership Fort Worth, and Coalition of Black Democrats. Chair of the Fort Worth ISD Equity Committee.

Moss received over 100 trophies, plaques and awards for her life of community service.

Presently: Member of the Fort Worth ISD COC Committee for the 2017 bond and member of the Fort Worth ISD Equity Committee.

She is married to former Fort Worth City Councilman Franklin D. Moss Sr. of 51 years. They have three children: Edmond L. Moss, an accountant; Kimberlen C Simpson Moss, a retired nurse, and veteran; and Franklin D Moss Jr., C.E.O. of Franklin & Anthony Tailor/Clothier. Our daughter-in-law, Mia Owens Moss, the wife of Franklin Moss Jr., is the C.E.O. of Black Coffee. They have five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.