Updated at 11:45 a.m. with a statement from President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

WASHINGTON — Brooke Rollins, a former aide to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, will fill a recent White House vacancy as assistant to the president in the Office of American Innovation.

The White House announced this week that Rollins would fill the post after Reed Cordish stepped down, the latest of more than a dozen top officials to leave the White House in a little more than a year, The Washington Post reported Friday.

Rollins is the president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Austin.

She was raised in the small Texas town of Glen Rose and received her bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University, where she was the first female student body president. Rollins graduated from the University of Texas School of Law and later served as Perry’s deputy general counsel and policy director while he was governor. Perry is now secretary of energy.

Kevin Roberts, executive vice president of the foundation, praised President Donald Trump's decision to pick his colleague for the role.

Proud of my friend and @TPPF leader who will bring some Texas charm to Washington, DC. What a great move for a great lady from the greatest state in the greatest nation in the world. #MAGA #txlege https://t.co/WkQIIAYiXb — Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) February 16, 2018

"Proud of my friend and @TPPF leader who will bring some Texas charm to Washington, DC," Roberts tweeted Friday. "What a great move for a great lady from the greatest state in the greatest nation in the world. #MAGA #txlege."

Cordish, whom Rollins will be replacing, also has Texas ties. His company, The Cordish Cos., partnered with the Texas Rangers to create Texas Live!, a $250 million entertainment complex next to the Arlington baseball stadium.

In an interview with The Post, Cordish said he had never planned to remain with the administration for more than a year, and he will return to his family's real estate company.

The Office of American Innovation, created by Trump last March, is run by the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner. The office's goal is to recommend policies to the president, improve the quality of life for Americans and "spur job creation," according to the White House's March news release.

In a statement, Kushner called Cordish "invaluable" to the administration.

"[Cordish] and I have been working closely with Brooke Rollins in her role as President & CEO of Texas Public Policy Foundation on Prison Reform and she is well prepared to continue executing on our key initiatives," the statement read. "We are grateful to have her join the Office of American Innovation."

Rollins served on the president's economic advisory committee and is an avid Trump supporter. Earlier this year, Rollins told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that she and her organization were working closely with the Office of American Innovation.

"They're business oriented people and they want results fast," Rollins told the Star-Telegram of the office of innovation. "They see an organization like ours ... and we've been able to implement that in Texas, and they want to understand how to do that here."

The foundation is a powerful force in the Texas Capitol, where the group advocates for small government and free markets. They’ve stretched their reach to Washington, advocating for rolling back Obama-era policies like the Clean Air Act and the Affordable Care Act.

In 2011, Texas Monthly named Rollins one of the top 25 most influential Texans. Two years later, the foundation began providing lawmakers with daily summaries and analyses of the bills reaching the Texas House and Senate. The House Research Organization, which calls itself a "nonpartisan independent department" of the House, had been providing daily floor reports for years.

In an email to The Dallas Morning News at the time, Rollins said, "We couldn't be more pleased" about providing the bill analyses.

Rollins isn't the only person in the foundation to have received White House support. TPPF's Kathleen Hartnett White was selected as the nominee to head up the Council on Environmental Quality. Democrats blasted her nomination because of controversial remarks she made about climate change, carbon dioxide and the Endangered Species Act. The White House dropped her nomination earlier this month.