Zoe Grant

Dr. Zoe Grant was elected as a Council member for District 2 in May of 2023. Originally from Denver, Colorado, she has been a Temple Resident since 2016 and a District 2 Resident since 2020. She serves as council liaison for the Planning and Zoning Commission, Zoning Board of Adjustment, and Main Street Advisory Board. She has served on the City of Temple's Board of Adjustments, Neighborhood Revitalization Advisory Board, Comprehensive Plan Advisory Council, and Board of Appeals.

She served on many boards as Treasurer and chair of the Finance Committee for the Family Promise Board, Promise House Chair, and Promise House construction clerk for their new building. Also, the Temple Civic Theatre, Temple Founders Lions Club, Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum Foundation, A New Day Learning Academy, and Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Patient and Family Advisory Council.

Dr. Grant is the NAACP Temple Branch President and remains a member of local organization boards that serve the residents of Bell County. Those boards include 5 Pearlz of Hope in Killeen, Cadence Bank Killeen-Temple Community Advisory Council, and A New Day Fellowship Church. She has memberships with the Founders Lions Club, and she is a Life Member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, and a Life Member of the NAACP. She belongs to both the Temple Chamber of Commerce and the Innovation Black Chamber of Commerce (IBCC). She is the Crestview District Neighborhood Champion for one of the City of Temple's eighteen Neighborhood Coalition.

She is the founder of Zoe's Wings Foundation, Inc. Her parents, Earline (Blocker) and Horace Grant, were Texas Natives that met in Temple. Temple is home to her many relatives. She has two adult children, Ejevon, 40 (son, who lives in Colorado) and Davetta, 38 (Daughter), married to James Cross, and three granddaughters, Madison, 10, Jayda 4, and Brooklyn, 1, who live in Ft Worth, Texas.