Background
Coleman was born on September 8, 1961, in Washington, District of Columbia and raised in Houston, Texas. His father is John B. Coleman, a Houston doctor.
Coleman was born on September 8, 1961, in Washington, District of Columbia and raised in Houston, Texas. His father is John B. Coleman, a Houston doctor.
Coleman graduated from Jack Yates High School in Houston, and the University of Saint Thomas in Houston. Coleman attended Howard University in Washington, District of Columbia and in 1990 graduated from the University of Saint Thomas cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts. He also completed the Harvard University Senior Executive Program for State and Local Government.
As of 2006, the family of Coleman"s father had lived in Houston"s Third Ward neighborhood for over 100 years. Coleman was elected to his first term as a state representative in 1991 at age 29. His district includes Downtown Houston, the Hobby Airport area, Midtown Houston, Sagemont, and the Third Ward.
Coleman has been named Texas Monthly Ten Best Legislators List on two occasions.
On July 14, 2015, Coleman was stopped by a police officer for driving 94 miles per hour. Coleman later said of the incident, "He talked to me like I was a child.
Even when he found out I was a legislator, he became more rude and nasty. And I didn"t understand why this guy was continuing to go on and on and treat me like a child.
And basically like I"m saying is treat me like a boy.
I want to be very clear about that." Even so, Coleman was neither issued a citation for speeding nor charged with perjury. However, KHOU later reported an analysis of the audio from a dashcam recording of Coleman"s accusations against the police officer Coleman, in regards to the Third Ward, expressed his opposition to gentrification and a desire to keep the original residents in the neighborhood.
Coleman had some control over the Midtown Tax Increment Financing District, which bought land in the Third Ward and enacted deeds restricting what may be done with the land, so that the land could indefinitely be used to house low income residents.
In 2009, Coleman said "We learned a lot from the debacle in the Fourth Ward. So it would be stupid not to respond to the negative byproducts of rapid development.
We want to find people who will make this community better by becoming part of its fabric, not by changing its fabric." In regards to the Fourth Ward in 2009, Coleman said that it cannot recapture the sense of community that it used to have. Coleman added "the residents got pushed to the suburbs, and the businesses got wiped away.".
Since 1991, he has been a member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 147th district, located entirely within Houston, Texas and Harris County.
He was so rude and nasty.
Married Angelique Coleman. Children: Austin, Evan.