Brett Herron is currently a member of the Mayoral Committee: Transport and Urban Development (as of 2017), Chairperson of the Naming & Nominations Committee, and a Director of the South African Law School. He entered politics in 2009 as the Chairperson of the Social Development Portfolio Committee and went on to become a member of the Mayoral Committee: Community Services until his appointment in 2011 as Mayoral Committee Member for Transport for Cape Town. Before pursuing politics, Brett worked as an attorney at various firms in South Africa, as well as in New York.