A Servant Leader: Family, Community Leaders Shape Fort Worth City Council District 6 Director

Arlington TX

20 January, 2022

7:26 PM

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By Kristen Barton, Fort Worth Report January 20, 2022 Ruby Washington regularly served the United Riverside neighborhood, taking food to a sick neighbor, cooking for a church event or helping someone who just lost a loved one — and great-grandson Kendyll Locke was with her. It's where the 19-year-old learned servant leadership and the importance of community. "She exposed me, along with the rest of my family, to what true service and leadership looks like," Locke said. "And it wasn't necessarily all about reaping the benefit all the time, but it was just being out there and giving yourself up for service." After she died in 2014, he carried those lessons with him, and now he helps serve a much larger part of Fort Worth as the District 6 director for Councilman Jared Williams. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.