Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician,diplomat,and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor,Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement,serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. Young later became active in politics,serving as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia,United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Carter Administration,and 55th Mayor of Atlanta. He was the first African American elected to Congress from Georgia since Reconstruction,as well as one of the first two African Americans elected to Congress from the former Confederacy since Reconstruction,alongside Barbara Jordan of Texas. Since leaving office,Young has founded or served in many organizations working on issues of public policy and political lobbying.
Zell Bryan Miller was an American politician who served as a United States senator representing Georgia from 2000 to 2005 and as the 79th governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Morehouse College is a private historically Black,men's,liberal arts college in Atlanta,Georgia. Anchored by its main campus of 61 acres (25 ha) near Downtown Atlanta,the college has a variety of residential dorms and academic buildings east of Ashview Heights. Along with Spelman College,Clark Atlanta University,and the Morehouse School of Medicine,the college is a member of the Atlanta University Center consortium.
The University of Georgia is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens,Georgia,United States. Chartered in 1785,it is the oldest public university in the United States. It is the flagship school of the University System of Georgia.
John Hardy Isakson was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Georgia legislature and the United States House of Representatives.
Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist,leader of the civil rights movement,politician,professor,and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta,Georgia,during the early 1960s,he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971,he co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery,Alabama,and served as its first president for nearly a decade.
Roy Eugene Barnes is an American attorney and politician who served as the 80th governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003. As of 2024,he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Georgia.
Samuel Ernest Vandiver Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician who was the 73rd governor of Georgia from 1959 to 1963.
Samuel Marvin Griffin,Sr. was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia.
Lera Catharine "Cathy" Cox is an American academic administrator and former lawyer,politician,and journalist. She is President of Georgia College &State University. Cox,a member of the Democratic Party,previously served as Secretary of State of Georgia,a candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2006,Dean of Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University,and as the 21st president of Young Harris College.
Ivan Earnest Allen Jr.,was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd mayor of Atlanta,during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Georgia College &State University is a public liberal arts university in Milledgeville,Georgia. The university enrolls approximately 7,000 students and is a member of the University System of Georgia and the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Georgia College was designated Georgia's "Public Liberal Arts University" in 1996 by the Georgia Board of Regents.
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is a graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970. The school offers training in public policy analysis and administration in government and public affairs-related areas of the private and nonprofit sectors. Degree programs include a Master of Public Affairs (MPAff),a mid-career MPAff sequence,16 MPAff dual degree programs,a Master of Global Policy Studies (MGPS),eight MGPS dual degree programs,an Executive Master of Public Leadership,and a Ph.D. in public policy.
Blake Ragsdale Van Leer was an engineer and university professor who served as the fifth president of Georgia Institute of Technology from 1944 until his death in 1956.
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (AYSPS) is a school of public policy and one of 12 schools and colleges that constitute Georgia State University. Founded in 1996 as the Georgia State University Policy School,the school was named after civil rights leader Andrew Young in 1999.
Eric Tanenblatt is a U.S. Republican Party activist from the state of Georgia. He was a presidential elector in 2000 and 2004. He later served as Chief of Staff to Governor Sonny Perdue. Tanenblatt is currently a principal and head of the public policy practice at the global law firm of Dentons US LLP.
Jason James Carter is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Georgia. Carter served in the Georgia State Senate from 2010 to 2015 and was the Democratic Party nominee for governor of Georgia in the 2014 election. He is the grandson of the former U.S. President and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.
The Atlanta Law School was a private,night law school for working professionals and others seeking a legal education. The school's faculty members were practicing lawyers and judges from across the state of Georgia. The school began in 1890 and closed its doors in 1994. It was accredited by the Georgia Board of Bar Examiners. Today the school continues as a scholarship fund for those students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to practice law.
Elizabeth Lee "Lisa" Branch is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She was a judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals from 2012 to 2018.
Clyde Lowaine Reese III known professionally as Clyde L. Reese was an American lawyer who served as a judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
