McBath, Lucia Kay, 1960-

Lucia Kay McBath (née Holman; born June 1, 1960) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Born in Joliet, Illinois, McBath attended Virginia State University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1982. After college, McBath worked as an intern for former Virginia governor Douglas Wilder. In the 1990s, she became a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines and relocated to Atlanta, where Delta is headquartered. McBath remained with Delta for thirty years.

After the murder of her son, Jordan Davis, in November 2012, McBath became an advocate for gun control, joining other mothers of African-American murder victims to form the Mothers of the Movement, and spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. After the election of Donald Trump and the undoing of previously-enacted gun control measures, McBath decided to run for public office. Though initially planning to run for a seat in the Georgia state House of Representatives in 2018, after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018, McBath instead decided to challenge Karen Handel, the incumbent Republican in the United States House of Representatives representing Georgia's historically Republican 6th congressional district.

Winning the Democratic primary in a runoff election, McBath would narrowly defeat Handel in the general election, becoming the first Democrat to garner 40 percent of the vote in a general election in two decades. Though discussed as a possible candidate in the Georgia Senate special election in 2020, McBath would instead defeat Handel in a rematch.