Lisa Pittman is a pioneering figure in the Texas cannabis industry. Ms. Pittman is an appointee to the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Industrial Hemp Advisory Council. She is also a non-resident fellow of the Drug Policy Program at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Ms. Pittman is the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Cannabis Law & Policy Committee for 2021-2022, is a 2020 Texas Lawyer Trailblazer, and a 2020 National Law Journal Trailblazer for Cannabis Law. Ms. Pittman earned her J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center, where she graduated in the top 1/3 of her class, and her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.