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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Brewster McCracken |
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Austin, Texas , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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Unknown |
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Still Living
(2025 years) |
| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | Ashley
May 12, 2009 10:59pm |
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| Info | Brewster has focused his work on the Council on promoting emerging technologies, particularly film, wireless, clean energy and digital media, and on leading broad-based community reforms to establish mixed use density zones along Austin’s major corridors.
Mayor Pro Tem McCracken led the successful effort to make Austin a founding partner with the University of Texas in the Austin Wireless Initiative, and his initiatives in film and digital media have led to the current proposal to upgrade Austin Studios into the nation’s premier digital filmmaking studio for independent filmmakers.
Mayor Pro Tem McCracken chairs the Council’s Emerging Technologies Committee and the Land Use-Transportation Committee. He is the lead author of Austin’s Commercial Design Standards, which are the region’s first comprehensive enactment of Envision Central Texas land use policies. He was named a national nominee for the American Planning Association’s Distinguished Leadership Award for an Elected Official for his efforts in this area.
Brewster graduated from Ray High School in Corpus Christi, then paid his way through college at Princeton on an Army scholarship. He earned a Masters in Public Affairs from the LBJ School and a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
After graduating from law school, Brewster worked as a prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. He tried his first jury trial on his sixth day of work, and he had risen to the level of felony prosecutor when he returned to Austin.
Even more than his experience as a prosecutor and a lawyer, Brewster’s commitment to fairness and responsibility has grown out of his extensive volunteerism, first as a school mentor, then through working with organizations focused on child abuse and the security needs of low income young people, battered women and isolated seniors as a member of the United Way’s Safety and Security Committee.
Brewster has also been active in the community as a member of the Austin Writers’ League (which selected his novel as a finalist in its manuscript competition), as a board member of the Austin Public Library Foundation, as a graduate of Leadership Austin and as a deacon in his church.
Brewster was blessed to have his first child when his son Ford McCracken was born on Texas Independence Day, March 2, 2004.
Ford loves music, particularly Sara Hickman’s “Down By the Bay,” and he demands that Brewster play children’s music instead of talk radio in the car in the morning.
Brewster’s favorite time each week is when he and Ford attend music class together every Saturday morning in north-central Austin, and he never schedules anything that interrupts their class.
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