Lucy Mae McDonald

Lucy Mae Mcdonald was the Superintendent at Ferris Independent School District in Ferris, Texas and the Principal of the segregated school until the integration of the Ellis County School System. She has been noted as the first African American superintendent in the United States and one of the first woman superintendents in Texas and the United States.
Early years
Lucy Mae Mcdonald Davis was born on October 24, 1914 in Corsicana, Texas As a child she attended Ferris ISD received a high school degree from Jarvis Christian College.
She attended a number of colleges including:
*Prairie View TAMU at Bishop College
*New York University
*North Texas State University (Now the University of North Texas)
Legacy
She died on November 7, 2000 at Dallas Baylor Hospital of natural causes. In her honor in 2002 Lucy Mae Mcdonald Elementary was created as the first grade through third grade school for Ferris ISD.
Transcript of her interview “Testimony of an educator”
ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH
LUCY MAE MCDONALD
ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW #1986.13
“Testimony of an educator”
LUCY MAE MCDONALD: from the end of the cotton rule to the
computer age. When I first started school, I attended the elementary school at
Ferris. At that time it was called the colored school. My first year at Ferris I
changed that from colored to Dunbar School. It has been beautiful working
there. At present, even though I am retired, I am working part-time as a
consultant of the Ferris Independent School District.

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