Edward Pollard (politician)

Edward Pollard is a Houston politician that represents District J of the Houston City Council.

Edward Pollard
Member of Houston City Council
for District J
Assumed office
January 2, 2020
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic
Children2
Alma materMorehouse College (BA)
Thurgood Marshall
School of Law (JD)
Harvard Business School

Personal life and education

Pollard was born in Southwest Houston, and attended Houston Independent School District schools. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia on a basketball scholarship. He graduated with a bachelors in political science. He played professional basketball internationally in Singapore, Chile, and other South American countries. He then returned to Houston and earned a juris Doctorate from Thurgood Marshall School of Law, and later, from Harvard Business School, received a Certificate in Negotiation Mastery. Pollard is the principle owner of Pollard Legal Group, LLC, which is a civil litigation law firm. Additionally, he founded Suits for Success which is a 501(c)3 organization that helps teenage boys develop life skills. He is member of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, and has a wife and 2 children.[1]

Political career

Pollard is considered to be a centrist or more conservative Democrat.[2] He was sworn in on January 2, 2020 to represent District J of the Houston City Council.[3]

gollark: They *claim* that the algorithm is designed to make it so that possible misspellings go to very different locations, but this has been demonstrated to be incorrect in some cases.
gollark: Oh, and their wordlist is bad and contains various easily confusable words.
gollark: ~~I believe their official thing also needs an internet connection to work, even though it could simply not do so.~~ It does not, actually.
gollark: To spite them, I have an open source reimplementation of the algorithm somewhere in my archive folder.
gollark: And then shut down any independent research or reimplementations of it!

References
  1. "About the Council Member". www.houstontx.gov. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  2. "Edward Pollard – Off the Kuff". Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  3. "Edward Pollard". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 9 March 2020.


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