Veteran Linda Weaver served as a nurse for the Veteran's Administration and the U.S. Navy Nurse Corp during Desert Storm.

Tommy Boman was the first African American basketball scholarship recruit at Baylor University.

Congress woman Eddie Bernice Johnson currently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Darryl Henson is the first black Superintendent of Marlin ISD.

You can see Shirley King's passion for people through her work as founder of "Faith, Hope and Charity" a non-profit.

Claudia Brown was the first African American woman elected as Justice of the Peace in Bell County.