Rita Drabek
Drabek Elementary School
Rita Drabek earned a degree in Business Administration from the University of Houston and was working in downtown Houston when she married Johnnie Drabek, who lived in Sugar Land. When they married she applied for a teaching position in Sugar Land. Throughout her years as a teacher, Drabek offered a steady hand and a caring heart to students in Fort Bend ISD. After teaching for 16 years, Drabek was one of three female assistant principals named by the District in 1973. She served as principal at Lakeview Elementary, Meadows Elementary, and as Director of Elementary Curriculum before being elected to the Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees in 1992, where she served three terms. Her stability and commitment to education and educators helped guide the
District through a period of rapid growth and change. After her retirement from the Board, she went to work part-time as an educational consultant for the Region IV Education Service Center, where today she continues to mentor young teachers throughout the Houston area.