Emmett has always been looked to as a leader…

• Virginia Senate (96-Present)
• House of Delegates (83-91)
• Commissioner of the Revenue, Augusta County (79-83)
• President, Virginia College
• President, Dominion Business Schools
• Captain, Virginia Army National Guard
• Commander, Harrisonburg National Guard
• President, North River PTA
• President, Week Day Religious Education
• Local Cub Scout Leader
• Sunday School Superintendent
• Church Trustee
• President and founding member of Transition Industries (Sheltered workshop)
• Director and founding member, Augusta County Fair
• President, Sangersville Towers Ruritan Club
• Ruritan Zone Governor
• Chairman, Board of Trustees- Frontier Culture Museum, Staunton
• District Governor, Woodrow Wilson District

Leadership in the Legislature

• Chairman, Standing Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
• Chairman, Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relationships
• Chairman, Farmland Preservation Task Force
• Co-Chairman, Land Conservation and Parks
• Co-Chairman, VSDB Advisory Commission
• Chairman, Commonwealth Competition Council
• Chairman, Commission on Educational Accountability
• Chairman of the Virginia delegation to the Chesapeake Bay Commission
• Co-Chairman, Committee on State and Local Taxation
• Co-Chairman, Virginia Tax Reform Commission
• Chair, Virginia delegation to the National Streamlined Sales Tax Project
• Executive Committee, National Conference of State Legislatures
• Chairman, Policy Committee of Senate Republican Caucus
• Co-Chair, Virginia Legislative Sportsman Caucus

Leadership in the Republican Party

• Chairman, Augusta County Republican Committee
• Vice-Chairman, Sixth Congressional District Committee
• First Republican elected countywide since reconstruction in Augusta County
• Organizing Committee, first Virginia Republican Advance ever held
• Elected to the Senate defeating a 19-year Democrat incumbent