Biography
Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, is a former Atlanta mayor and Biden White House official running for governor of Georgia. She is campaigning on expanding Medicaid, lowering driving costs, a statewide affordable-housing trust fund, and repealing Georgia's abortion restrictions.[1][2]
Bottoms earned a bachelor's degree from Florida A&M University and a law degree from Georgia State University, and worked as an attorney and a magistrate judge.[1] She was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 2009 and re-elected in 2013, representing District 11.[1]
She served as Atlanta's 60th mayor from 2018 to 2022.[1][2] In June 2022 she joined the Biden administration as senior advisor and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.[1][2]
- 1.Georgia governor candidate profile: Keisha Lance Bottoms · FOX 5 Atlanta · 2026-10-12 News report
- 2.Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announces 2026 Georgia governor run · Atlanta News First (WANF) · 2025-05-20 News report
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.
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