Joe C. Pickett is presently serving his eighth term in the Texas House of Representatives. Rep. Pickett is Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation.

Representative Pickett also serves on the national board of directors of the American Metropolitan Planning Organization (AMPO). AMPO is a national nonprofit, membership organization serving the needs of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) nationwide. They function as a condition for spending federal highway or transit funds in urbanized areas, federal highway and transit statutes require the designation of MPOs which serve their areas in planning, programming and coordinating federal highway and transit investments.

He is the former Chairman of the Transportation Policy Board. He also serves on the Texas Transportation Council in Austin whose mission is to serve as a non-partisan and independent forum to research, organize, and promote a new direction for transportation that is based upon transparency, accountability and efficiency in order to improve mobility and restore public faith in the management of our state’s transportation infrastructure.