Joe Picozzi
Joe Picozzi | |
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| File:State Senator Elect Joe Picozzi Official Pennsylvania State Senate Headshot.jpg Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from the 5th district | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Jimmy Dillon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 21, 1995 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Education | Georgetown University |
Joseph S. Picozzi (born April 22, 1995) is an American politician from the Somerton neighborhood of Philadelphia currently serving as a Pennsylvania State Senator from District 5.[1] A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to represent District 5 of the Pennsylvania State Senate in the 2024 US elections,[2][3][4] defeating Democratic incumbent Jimmy Dillon who was elected in a 2022 special election to replace John Sabatina, who resigned to serve on a Court of Common Pleas.[3][5] Both candidates ran unopposed in their respective party primaries.[6][7]
Picozzi's parents are a retired deputy fire chief and the former director of rehabilitation at the now-closed Hahnemann Hospital.[8] He graduated from Holy Ghost Preparatory School.[9] Picozzi studied government at Georgetown University.[10][1] He has worked as a senior advisor in strategic planning at the Manhattan Institute and an assistant to US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.[1] He is an Eagle Scout.[1] Picozzi now lives in Tacony.[11]
In 2017, Picozzi was a finalist for that year's "30 under 30" list produced by Red Alert Politics, due in part to his campaigning in the 2016 US elections.[8] The Erie Times-News reported early in the campaign that although District 5 is heavily Democratic, Republican strategists saw the seat as a "potential pick-up".[5] By flipping District 5, Picozzi will be the first Republican to represent Philadelphia in the State Senate in over two decades.[2][12]
Picozzi co-chairs the Pennsylvania chapter of Future Caucus for Gen Z and millennial legislators dedicated to cross-partisan lawmaking.[13]
For the 2025-2026 Session, Picozzi sits on the following committees in the State Senate:[14]
- Urban Affairs & Housing (Chair)
- Law & Justice (Vice Chair)
- Appropriations
- Communications & Technology
- Game & Fisheries
- Intergovernmental Operations
- Labor & Industry
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