Joe Picozzi | |
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![]() 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 | Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,U.S. | April 21,1995
Political 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] :