Rozier named new Ellis County tax assessor/collector

WAXAHACHIE – The Ellis County Commissioner’s Court appointed Richard F. Rozier as the county’s new tax assessor. 

Rozier was one of three finalists that included a current employee of the tax assessor department and a local CPA/attorney.

He graduated from DeSoto High School and earned his Bachelor’s Degree at Howard Payne University. 

His background includes extensive service in local government. In DeSoto, he served on the city council and later became mayor. In Ellis County, Rozier served as the County Commissioner/Vice President of Ellis County Emergency Service District #6.

Though his elected terms in DeSoto municipal government ended in 2001, Rozier has maintained leadership positions in the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the Waxahachie Chamber of Commerce, the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Dallas County Homeland Security Advisory Committee, and Best Southwest.

Prior to Rozier’s appointment, he had been serving as the principal owner of Governmental Relations Specialists in Waxahachie (a consulting firm that assists clients in marketing to municipal and county governments) since 1998.

Rozier’s appointment was fast-tracked due to John Bridges, the tax assessor elected during the regular 2020 election, resignation and retirement on Feb. 5, 2021. 

“As the former mayor of DeSoto, Rozier has already managed multi-million-dollar budgets,” said Ellis County Judge Todd Little. “I have no doubt that Rozier will run his new office with the same efficiency that has characterized his public service for more than two decades.”

The county judge did not cast a vote in the appointment process of the commissioner’s court.

Rozier will take over the office of Tax Assessor/Collector on March 23. He will serve in that role through the election of 2022.