Kirk Watson, Mayor
Chair
Kirk Watson was elected Mayor of Austin in December 2022, having previously been elected in 1997. Mayor Watson has spent three decades working in public policy at both state and local levels, including 13 years in the Texas Senate where he was elected by his peers as President Pro Tempore in 2019. Mayor Watson has served on multiple committees, including as a member of the Sunset Advisory Commission, as Chair of the Texas Air Control Board, and as Vice-Chair of the committee that oversaw the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.