Robert L. "Robb" Pitts (born December 27, 1941) is an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was elected in 2017 as Chairman of the Fulton County, Georgia Board of Commissioners. [1] Pitts previously served on an at-large seat on the Atlanta City Council from 1977 to 2001, including a term as Council President from 1997 to 2001. After losing a mayoral bid to Shirley Franklin in 2001, Pitts was elected to the Fulton County Commission 2003 to 2014.
Born outside of Macon, Pitts was raised in Dayton, Ohio and attended Kent State University, where he attained his first job teaching Spanish. After moving to Atlanta in 1969 to teach at Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), he later worked for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. He first ran for Atlanta City Council in 1973, but won his first term against the incumbent in 1977. On August 1, 1987, Pitts formally introduced delivering Atlanta’s bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics to the International Olympic Committee, in place of Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, alongside Billy Payne. [2]