About
Matt Woods is a lifelong resident of Walker County. He grew up in the Providence community and is the oldest of four sons to Jimmy and Debbie Woods of Oakman. Matt graduated from Oakman High School in 2000. He has a love for sports and played football, baseball, and basketball throughout his high school career. Matt was a football team captain and was voted class president his senior year at Oakman High.
He continued his education at Bevill State Community College serving as an ambassador at the Sumiton Campus. Woods also served as an ambassador at the Bevill State Jasper Campus and was elected as the student government association president his sophomore year. After transferring to Auburn University, he attained a B.S. in Business Administration with a focus in aviation. In 2014, he received the designation as a Certified Master Dealer through the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association.
Following his college career, he moved back home to Walker County and went to work full-time at the family business, Jasper Auto Sales.
Matt has been an active member of his community, serving on numerous boards and civic groups. He is the past chairman and executive committee member of the Walker County Chamber of Commerce where he received 2014, ”Volunteer of the Year Award.” He has served as a mentor for the Walker County Youth Leadership Program and is an alumnus of Leadership Walker County. He serves as a board of trustee member with the Walker College Foundation, which provides 50 scholarships annually to Walker County students.
Matt has experience in awarding non-profit grants through his role as a grant reviewer with the Walker Area Community Foundation. The WACF provides financial resources and expertise to local non-profits organizations assisting with projects that positively impact the region. In 2018, Matt was appointed by Governor Kay Ivey and confirmed by the Alabama State Senate to serve as the Board of Trustee member for the fourth congressional district with the Alabama Community College System. The ACCS is comprised of 24 community and technical colleges including the Alabama Technology Network and Marion Military Institute. As a member of the ACCS Board of Trustees, Matt has focused on initiatives and policies that create opportunities for student success. He currently serves as the ACCS board policy committee chairman and has served on the finance and audit committee as well.
In 2020, he joined the board of directors for the Alabama Independent Automobile Dealers Association, which represents over 800 car dealers across the state.
Matt and his wife of 16 years, Brandi, reside in Jasper. Together, they have an 11-year-old daughter, Camden. Following the loss of their first child, Brandi started a local non-profit organization named Hope After Loss Organization (HALO). Hope After Loss Organization provides memory boxes and grief support to families who have experienced the loss of a child. Matt has served as the president of HALO since inception and credits the many families HALO has served for allowing he and his family to cope with their own loss. Matt serves as a deacon at the Parrish Church of Christ, where he has attended his whole life.
Contact Information
Known contact information for Matt Woods from Jasper, AL.
- Official Email: Email Unknown
Election History
Matt Woods from Jasper, AL has participated in elections listed below in the state of Alabama.
Sponsored Bills
View legislative bills that Matt Woods has sponsored.
- SB149
Teacher certification; Military Veteran Temporary Teaching Certificate established
- SB155
Coal-Impacted Communities Economic and Workforce Development Grant program established, new fund created, distribution of rent and royalties of federal coal lease sales
- SB160
Athletic Trainers; interstate licensure compact, established
- SB210
Chiropractic board; board service and licensure qualifications revised
- SB212
Fayette County; senior property tax exemption authorized, constitutional amendment
- SB213
Lamar County; senior property tax exemption authorized; constitutional amendment
- SB241
Walker County; temporary probate judges, authorized
- SB29
Chiropractic board; board service and licensure qualifications revised
- SB30
Civil procedure, provisions of agreements that prohibit disclosure of certain acts of sexual abuse rendered unenforceable
- SB31
Crimes and offenses, penalty increased for crimes of making a terrorist threat in the first or second degree, principal to immediately contact law enforcement of terrorist threat, suspension of student, readmittance, and restitution provided
- SB323
Criminal defendants with mental illness; right of appeal for commitment and conditional release order provided, jurisdiction to hear appeals provided
- SB56
Walker County; senior property tax exemption authorized; constitutional amendment
- SB67
Walker County; constitutional amendment, age to qualify for election or appointment as judge of probate increased to age 75
- SJR100
Prestley Skelton, honored
- SJR17
Naming portions of Alabama state routes 5, 69, 195, and 257, as well as Industrial Parkway, in Walker County, Alabama, as the Smith Lake Parkway
- SJR54
Congress urged to authorize a reliability report on Marine Highway 65
- SJR90
Alabama State Chiropractic Association, commended
- SJR91
Naming both bridges on Interstate 22 that span Mulberry Fork the Senator Greg Reed Bridge
- HB266
Restoring Educational Advancement of Completing High School (REACH) Act, providing for a nontraditional high school diploma option for students 17 years of age and older who withdraw from school through the Adult Education Division of the Alabama Community College System; to provide for the sharing of data on students who drop out of high school; and to provide that participating students are eligible for driver's licenses
- HB356
Crimes and offenses, penalty increased for crimes of making a terrorist threat in the first or second degree, principal to immediately contact law enforcement of terrorist threat, suspension of student, readmittance, and restitution provided
- HB451
Taxation; establishes Alabama Broadband Investment Maximization Act; exempts purchase of broadband equipment and supplies from sales and use tax
- HB548
Taxation; establishes Alabama Broadband Investment Maximization Act; exempts ADECA project funded or administered purchases from sales and use tax
- HB84
Board of Chiropractic Examiners; methods for sending board election notice and ballots permitted; limited license removed; licensee continuing education requirements revised
- HB85
Crimes and offenses, penalty increased for crimes of making a terrorist threat in the first or second degree, public K-12 schools may immediately suspend student if charged, principal required to sign complaint if warranted, readmittance and restitution provided
- HJR255
Miss Prestley Skelton, congratulated
- HR246
Gregory Dale Fanin, commended
- HR254
Miss Prestley Skelton, congratulated
- HR56
Karmen Luts, Eagle Scout, commended
- HR57
Brenda Sellers, Eagle Scout, commended
- HR58
Kendra Williams, Eagle Scout, commended
- HR9
Future Business Leaders of America Week, recognized
- HB168
Crimes & Offenses, raises max. age for offenses involving obscene materials with depictions of children, authorizes punitive damages for victims of those offenses, and directs Board of Ed. to require policies related to those offenses
- HB169
Public K-12 Education, posting of curricula on school websites required, parents or guardians authorized to request further information, complaint process
- HB330
Public institutions of higher education, annual reports of funding received from foreign countries of concern required, exceptions provided
- HB331
Public K-12 schools; nonpublic school transfer students excluded from certain assessments determining school or school district grade.
- HB482
Walker County, judge of probate salary
- HR229
Thomas Gary Ward, commended
- HR239
Missy Odom, Class 5A Player of the Year, commended
- HR99
Jasper High School Girls Basketball Team, commended
- HB114
Relating to fiduciary funds in the hands of officials; to amend Section 19-3-87, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for disposition of unclaimed funds held in a county treasury after being unclaimed for a certain number of years; and to amend Section 35-12-73, Code of Alabama 1975, to exempt unclaimed funds under Section 19-3-87, Code of Alabama 1975.
- HB185
Relating to Walker County; to authorize the Walker County Commission to establish voting centers throughout Walker County.
- HJR75
COMMENDING COLONEL KEITH H. LEWIS FOR HIS DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE.
- HJR76
COMMENDING COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR JAMES W. FRYE FOR HIS DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE MILITARY POLICE CORPS REGIMENT AND THE UNITED STATES ARMY.
- HR151
COMMENDING KENT DAVENPORT ON ATTAINING THE RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT IN THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
- HR155
COMMENDING KENT DAVENPORT ON ATTAINING THE RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT IN THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
- HR192
RECOGNIZING THE HARBIN HOTEL IN NAUVOO, ALABAMA, ON ITS 100TH ANNIVERSARY.
Voting Record
Recent legislative votes cast by Matt Woods. Use the full archive to find a specific bill.
- 2,113Yea
- 22Nay
- 135Abstained
- 117Absent
- YeaHJR343Alabama Yom HaShoah Commemoration, recognized
- AbsentHJR326Recognizing the need for a north-south transportation route in East Alabama
- YeaHB633Etowah County, membership of personnel board
- YeaHB580Public institutions of higher education; faculty senates limited to advisory role, tenure policy required, review and dismissal of tenured faculty authorized, governing board authority over courses and curriculum provided
- YeaHB311Retirement benefits; participation of qualifying sheriffs in supernumerary program and Employees' Retirement System based on separate years of service authorized
- YeaHB141Public utilities; maximum fees payable to directors of certain public utility corporations increased, terms of certain directors extended
- YeaHB67Voter Information; limit cost of reproducing voter registration list; crime for misuse of personal voter information; created
- YeaSB199Sex offenders; restrictions for certain sex offenders further provided, Board of Pardons and Paroles authorized to adopt rules
- YeaSB57Public assistance; Department of Human Resources required to request waiver to prohibit the purchase of soda and candy with SNAP benefits, implementation of prohibition provided for
- YeaSB9Alabama Clean Indoor Air Act, renamed Vivian Davis Figures Clean Indoor Air Act; vaping included as prohibited smoking in public places.