Claudes Bio

Claude Hunter has served the residential and business community of The Woodlands since 1997 as a full time volunteer. He was elected and served as Director and Secretary of The Woodlands Township from 2008 to June 2012 and Vice Chairman of The Woodlands Convention & Visitors Bureau from 2008 to June 2012. Claude served as elected Director and Vice President of The Woodlands Association for ten years from 2000 to 2010, Secretary of The Community Associations of The Woodlands and of The Woodlands Fire Department and President and Vice President of The Woodlands Recreation Center Boards of Directors. Claude served as a Director of Municipal Utility District No. 67 from 2002 to 2008 and also as a Trustee of the Woodlands Joint Power Agency. Claude has represented residents and businesses on most community committees and boards. Examples include law enforcement, governance, legislative, budget, recreation, development review and mobility committees. Claude also actively represented residents and businesses on the South Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. Throughout most of his life Claude has been active as a leader in Scouting and YMCA. In 1999 Claude was chosen as an Outstanding Volunteer for his service with Covenant Administration.

Claude is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of The University of Texas and a graduate of Leadership Montgomery County, of The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Citizen Academy and is trained as a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteer He and his wife Peggy are native Texans with two daughters and four grandchildren. He served for 10 years in an infantry unit. As a Lieutenant, he led and trained a newly formed Military Police unit. Claude retired from Texaco Research and Development after over 30 years service in technical training, product testing, design of computerized information systems and customer technical service assignments. He developed and led a 1-800 technical service operation serving the US, Latin America and West Africa and was technical advisor for Texaco’s Nascar and Indy Car Programs.

Claude believes service to community is an honor and a privilege. For almost fifteen years he has worked with others to meet the needs of all residents of The Woodlands. He communicates daily with residents and seeks their input through a website at: ClaudeHunter.com . Claude uses resident input and relationships developed with other community leaders to achieve resident needs. Claude has no affiliation with any company doing business in The Woodlands.

Since 1997, Claude has attended essentially all meetings of the Woodlands Township, most meetings of the two resident associations and their joint meetings, all Township and association budget meetings, manyVillage Association meetings and meetings of the Development Review and Residential Design Review Committees. He also frequently attends meetings of Woodlands Municipal Utility Districts, The Woodlands Joint Powers Authority and Legislative sessions in Austin, Texas. For the last several years, Claude represented residents of The Woodlands at many Chamber functions and meetings. He also attended biannual statewide meetings of the Association of Water Board Directors to learn and stay current on new technologies and means of better handling our water supply, waste water and drainage issues. Having served as an elected Director serving all of the population of The Woodlands on four major boards and over one-half the population on five boards, Claude believes that his being familiar with all aspects of our local governance and participating full time is his responsibility to those he is privileged to serve. In preparation for our future of self governance, he believes he must continue to remain familiar and involved with all aspects of our local governance.

Claude has actively participated in the planning process for our governance for more than thirteen years. He supported and lobbied for legislation in 1999 through 2005 that would have allowed The Woodlands to simply vote to escape future annexation by Houston and Conroe. It became evident that such legislation was not likely to pass as essentially every city in Texas, and legislators who represented those constituents, opposed such laws. In accordance with resident input, a different approach was passed unanimously during the 1997 legislative session and refined in the 1999 session. That legislation is the basis for our success in having an opportunity to form our own local government, without threat of future annexation.

Claude remains committed to the residents of The Woodlands voting to determine their own future permanent form of government by 2057 as allowed by our enabling legislation and agreements neighboring cities including Houston and Conroe.