Commissioner Brooks has embraced four initiatives in his first term as County Commissioner.  Those include:  Healthcare for the Homeless--create a well informed, comprehensive and efficient strategy for addressing the problems of homelessness and champion the implementation of that strategy countywide; Team Health--a Tarrant County Public Health initiative to reduce minority health disparities; Prisoner Re-entry--raise awareness around ex-offender reentry issues, provide skill building exercises, equip volunteers with specialized knowledge and training to mentor offenders, children whose parents are incarcerated, disruptive and violent youth, and foster relationships between law enforcement and community; and E-Government--responding to the issues affecting the electronic delivery of government services and assist county and local agencies to achieve more Internet and customer-oriented delivery of services.  Commissioner Brooks will establish partnerships with community groups to develop his four initiatives.

His current board memberships include:  Member of Board of Directors of National Association of Counties, Camp Coca Cola Texas, Board of Trustees, Texas Wesleyan University, Member of the Advisory Board of Community Hospice of North Texas; Member, National Association of Counties Health Steering Committee; Member, Board of Directors of Leadership Fort Worth; Member, the Advisory Committee of Tarrant County United Negro College Fund Campaign; Member, Infant Mortality Steering Committee, member of Board of Directors of Fort Worth/Dallas Birthing Project; member of the UT Arlington/Fort Worth Center Advisory Council.  He is also a member of the Boards of Directors of several Tax Increment Financing Districts charged with financing various “big ticket” economic development projects in Tarrant County.

He is Past President of NABCO, National Association of Black County Officials, which represents both Elected and Appointed County Officials across America, in creating and shaping public policy in this Nation’s counties.  He is also Past President of the Fort Worth/Tarrant County Minority Leaders and Citizens Council.   As President, he led the MLCC in spearheading the African American Immunization Coalition, the African American AIDS Summit, and in providing crucial information vital to the shaping of opinion in the African American community.  He has also served as President of the AIDS Outreach Center, Tarrant County’s largest AIDS service organization.  Member Board of Directors of the Community Hospice of North Texas from 2003 through 2006.

His wife, Dr. Jennifer Giddings Brooks is Director of the Center for Urban Education at Texas Christian University.  They have two children, Royce, a practicing attorney in Washington, DC; and Marion, a first-year law student at The University of Texas at Austin.