Bottoms, Keisha Lance, 1970-

Keisha Lance Bottoms (born January 18, 1970) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the 60th and current mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. She is the sixth African American and second woman to hold the position.

Born and raised in Atlanta, she attended Atlanta Public Schools, graduating from Frederick Douglass High School before earning a B.A. in communications from Florida A&M University and a J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law. Bottoms was a prosecutor and also represented children in juvenile court. In 2002, she became a magistrate judge in Atlanta. In 2008, she ran unsuccessfully for a judgeship on the Fulton Superior Court. Bottoms was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 2009 and 2013, representing District 11 in southwest Atlanta. Bottoms was elected mayor in 2017, after receiving a plurality of votes (26%) in a crowded field of candidates on Election Day, then defeating fellow City Council member Mary Norwood in the runoff election.

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