Ms. Pittman is a pioneering figure in the emerging legalized hemp/cannabis industry in Texas.  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 presented the American Bar Association’s first marijuana law CLE at its annual meeting in New York City in 2017, resulting in the creation of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Cannabis Law and Policy, for which she is the Chair of in 2021-2022.