HOUSTON- Algenita Scott Davis grew up in Houston’s Fifth Ward, and graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School. After earning her undergraduate degree in accounting from Howard University School of Business Administration in 1971, she attended Howard’s Law School earning her Juris Doctorate degree in 1974.
After five years as a tax attorney with Shell Oil Company, she became general counsel for the Port of Houston Authority and Port Development Corporation. In 1987 Mayor Kathy Whitmire appointed her to serve as a member of the City Planning Commission. In 1989, she joined Texas Commerce Bank and served as Senior VicePresident and Community Affairs Officer of TCB and its successor, JP Morgan Chase.

After retirement in 2005, she served as a visiting professor at Texas Southern University School of Business and Thurgood Marshall School of Law. In September 2006, she became the executive director of Houston Habitat for Humanity.

She is a founding director of the William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity (WALIPP) and the founding president of the Houston Downtown Management District and a past chair of the Greater Houston Women’s Foundation (nee Women’s Resource Board). She has been the recipient of countless awards and honors.
She currently serves on several non-profit Boards and has recently been appointed to serve as Commissioner on the City of Houston’s Airport Planning Commission. Ms. Davis was married to the late John Whittaker Davis, III, Esq. for 21 years and served as a partner with him in the firm he established, Robinson and Davis, Attorneys atLaw. She is the mother of their son, John IV, and daughter, Marthea.

In 2007, she married Ardie Segars, Jr., who has three daughters, Summer, Jacquelyn and Christina Segars.
We salute Algenita Scott Davis as this week’s Living Legend and invite you to send in who you think will make a good Living Legend and why they should be honored.