Blackland TX · Civic records

Rice

Who held office in each town, and when, from each town's own history and public records.

Postmasters since 1971 · Mayors on record

Postmasters since 1971

Rice postmasters from the Postal Service's records. The early years are incomplete.

Miss Verna Gregorypostmaster · date not given

Mrs. Alice W. Dillardofficer-in-charge 31 May 1971; postmaster 27 Nov 1971

Therese M. Dempseyofficer-in-charge 1 Sept 1976; postmaster 4 June 1977

Jeanne S. Praytorofficer-in-charge 1 Aug 2007

Paul R. Solomonappointed 19 Jan 2008

Rodney A. Richmanofficer-in-charge 19 Mar 2019; postmaster 11 May 2019

Jeffrey Hunter Swannappointed 15 Jan 2022

Melody Greerofficer-in-charge 17 Mar 2022

Robert J. Carroll Jr.appointed 5 Nov 2022

From the US Postal Service's Postmaster Finder.

Mayors on record

A partial list of Rice's mayors. Rice incorporated on 2 December 1912. The city's history names J. W. South as first mayor; a 1912 officers' list names G. W. Harper. If you know of others, please send them in.

J. W. South1912 · named first mayor in the city's own history, with aldermen D. M. Loop, A. W. Christian and P. F. Halbert

G. W. Harper1912 · named mayor and recorder in a memoir's 1912 officers' list, and called the first mayor there

Jean Foust1977 · elected; the first woman to be mayor of Rice

J. Nicole Jacksonresigned late September 2023 · for family reasons

Christi Campbellcurrent, per the city's website, Sep 2026

1912: the City of Rice's history page; the Navarro County TXGenWeb pages "History of Rice" and "Historical Facts about Rice and Chatfield" (the Harper list). 1977: TXGenWeb "Township of Rice". 2023: the Ennis Daily News, 1 October 2023. Campbell: the city's mayor and council page.

From Rice's own history and public records.