The senior chair of the board of directors of Hunt Companies, Inc., and its affiliated companies, Woody Hunt is also chair of the Texas Commission on Community College Finance; foundation trustee of the Texas Higher Education Foundation; member of the Board of Visitors of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center-Houston; founding chair of the Borderplex Alliance in El Paso, where he is now chair emeritus; former chair of the Texas Business Leadership Council; and vice-chair for the Council for Regional Economic Expansion and Educational Development in El Paso. He is also chair of the Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation, which he founded with his wife in 1987.