 He was the board president from 2009 to 2010.When Republican Representative Joe Crabb declined to seek reelection in 2010, Huberty and three others entered the primary election to choose a successor.With the help of Republican Strategist, 
Allen Blaekmore,  Huberty nearly won with 7,465 votes (48.8 percent) but was forced into a runoff election with anesthesiologist Susan Dobbs Curling (born 1957) of Kingwood, another Houston suburb, who received 3,063 votes (20 percent).