James “Scooter” Green was appointed to the Bastrop County ESD 3 board in January 2025 and his current term expires in December 2027.  He began his career in emergency services as a junior firefighter in 1990 and became an EMT in 1992 while attending Texas A&M University where he earned his Bachelor’s’ Degree in Community Health. While there, he went on to earn his Paramedic certification and EMS Instructor. As part of his degree, he taught his first EMT class and established a volunteer First Responder Organization in a very rural county.  His EMS career has spanned a multitude of various roles and delivery models from volunteer to paid; from private EMS to hospital-based EMS to governmental third service; from rural to urban, from dispatcher to provider to educator to supervisor to administrator.

In 1999, he combined his passion for aviation and medicine and became a Flight Paramedic which he still serves in that capacity today. His role as a flight paramedic is actually what led him to move to Bastrop in 2010 when his base was relocated to Cedar Creek. Shortly after moving here, he joined the Bastrop County First Responders where he began serving on the board in 2012 and was elected as President in 2013 which he has served until he was appointed to the ESD 3 Board of Commissioners.  Additionally, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Capital Area of Texas – Regional Advisory Council for the past 8+ years.

Scooter has been a part of emergency response in Bastrop county for the past 15 years and has been a strong advocate for significant improvements for the delivery of Emergency Medical Services. Being a financial conservative, he believes that the ESD can not only catch Bastrop County up to what the citizens of Bastrop County deserve now, but prepare for the explosive growth we will experience over the next decade.