Frank D. Parent

Who is Frank D. Parent?

Frank D. Parent was a Los Angeles County municipal court judge between 1930 and 1958. He coached President Dwight D. Eisenhower on championship football and baseball teams at Abilene High School, Kansas, between 1905 and 1909. The Frank D. Parent Elementary School in the Inglewood, California, Unified School District was dedicated to him on May 15, 1960.

Parent was born in Abilene, Kansas, and he attended the University of Kansas, where he was quarterback on a team coached by Fielding H. Yost, which won every game. He was a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and Beta Theta Pi social fraternity for 60 years.

He was a county attorney in Kansas and co-owner of the Abilene Chronicle before moving to Inglewood in 1910, when he became an owner-partner of the Inglewood Realty Company, 1910–41; first president of the Inglewood Realty Board, 1922–24; charter board member of the Inglewood Chamber of Commerce in 1922; and charter president of the Inglewood Rotary Club in 1930–31. In 1942 he was president of the Inglewood Bar Association.