Dr. Pretta VanDible Stallworth

Pretta VanDible Stallworth is the District IX Trustee for the Houston Community College Board, elected in December 2017. She is an HISD graduate of Reynolds Elementary, Woodson Middle, and Worthing High District  9  schools. She focuses on serving, promoting and advancing District 9 and HCC through the national core values of diversity, advocacy, innovation, and student success. Her accomplishments include work that raises awareness and increases student enrollment in the district, at HCC, and beyond its borders. 

Dr. Pretta VanDible Stallworth is a TED.com Organizer, promoting Sunnyside, District 9, and HCC for global TED Talk Speaker events.  “TED: Ideas Worth Spreading” is an international nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas in Technology, Entertainment, Design — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages. 

Dr. Pretta VanDible Stallworth is an Association of Community College Trustees Director-at-Large.The 3-year term involves strengthening the capacity of the community, technical, and junior colleges. ACCT fosters the realization of community college missions at the national, state, and local levels.

Dr. VanDible Stallworth serves on the Rice University Engineering Alumni Board and is Sponsorships Chair. The 3-year term commitment allows her to increase multicultural student academic engagement in the Rice engineering and science programs. She also served on the board of the Association of Rice University Black Alumni.

Trustee Dr. Pretta VanDible Stallworth was an adjunct professor for over 35 years and has taught 16 courses at the university, 2-year college, business, and corporate training levels. She is a corporate trainer, a curriculum designer, and online course developer. Pretta designed and developed revolutionary emotional abuse awareness curriculums utilized in family law courts and K-12 education.

As a business-to-business consultant Dr. Pretta VanDible Stallworth provides project management, commercial cost estimation, construction support, business development and operations. Consulting support services were provided to Dr. Charleta Guillory for medical intervention models. The Texas Pulse Oximetry Project Model, TxPOP, is the award-winning national screening model for the early detection of Critical Congenital Heart Defect (CCHD) in apparently healthy newborns. The Honey Child Prenatal Education Program model provides African-American women with culturally appropriate information and support needed for healthy pregnancy and birth outcome.

Trustee VanDible Stallworth volunteers for TPT Community Development Corporation,community, and K-12 organizations. She is a member of Top Ladies of Distinction Sugar Valley Chapter. She served as the Sam Houston Area Council Boy Scouts of America Troop 740 Parent, Merit Badge Counselor, and Friends of Scouting Coordinator. She was an active HISD VIPS parent for over 20 years and served as Chair of the 2012-15 HSPVA Parents of Black History, PTO President of Johnston Middle School (now Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts), and PTO Historian of Parker Elementary School. She was the 2010 President of the Ft. Bend County International Festival.

Dr. VanDible Stallworth served as Chaplain for Senate District 13, Precinct 555 Chair, and Election Judge for three years. She also served on her community HOA Board for several years. 

Trustee Dr. Pretta VanDible Stallworth was the first HCC District 9 Board member from 1989-1993. During the 5-year tenure, the appointed board transitioned the community college from a President-directed, shared-facilities entity with Houston Independent School District to an independent Chancellor leadership system with six colleges.  Notable board governance accomplishments included: increased college revenue from $75,000,000 to $150,000,000; raised college reserves from $5,000,000 to $30,000,000; purchased land for a campus on Hwy 288; developed the 1st distance learning college in Texas; began the first high school and college dual enrollment courses.

Dr. VanDible Stallworth was owner and manager of Computer & Technology Support Services (CTS) for over 16 years. The Mississippi-based small business concern held contracts with Department of Defense military divisions. 

The company participated in the 2005 Federal Disaster Recovery Katrina Effort. CTS contracted with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and provided technology expertise and information systems support in 5 Mississippi disaster recovery installations.