Fort Worth City Council races continue to fill with candidates for the May election, with businessman Darien George confirming he’ll run for the District 9 seat being vacated by mayoral candidate Ann Zadeh.
George confirmed Wednesday he filed paperwork to appoint a campaign treasurer; the filing is expected to post on the city’s web site Thursday. The race already has three other candidates, including Elizabeth Beck, the lawyer who ran a bruising, unsuccessful campaign last year for the Texas Legislature’s District 97 seat against incumbent Craig Goldman.
The other two candidates are Fernando Peralta-Berrios, a human resources specialist for the Texas Army National Guard; and Erik Richerson, a self-employed man.
George is managing partner of Mackenzie Eason, a Fort Worth-based executive search and consulting firm, and founder of Talent Metrics, an AI cloud-based software that measures an organization’s culture and provides intelligence for executives on building culture. In 2019, George co-wrote “Broken Handoff-Saving Your Assets,” a book with insights into owning, buying, and selling a business published by Brown Books Publishing.
Beck, a veteran who spent eight and a half years in the Army Reserves with the 223rd Maintenance Company based in Grand Prairie, deployed in 2005 to Iraq. She later completed her masters in city and regional planning, working as a transportation planner at the North Central Texas Council of Governments, and then obtained her law degree in 2015 from the Texas A&M School of Law. Beck ran as a Democrat against the Republican Goldman for the House 97 seat last year, winning 37,707 votes, or 45.2% of the vote in the race.
Peralta-Berrios is president of the Las Families de Rosemont Neighborhood Association and civic engagement co-chair for the SteerFW young leaders organization.
The big District 9 includes the Near Southside, Central Business District, West 7th, Oakhurst, South Fort Worth, and part of TCU.
