Nicole Love Hendrickson (D)

• Two decades of experience in the Public Service sector in education, non-profit, philanthropy and government
• Serves on the boards of the United Way Gwinnett Community Board, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Aurora Theatre and the Gwinnett Young Professionals and Treasurer for the Rotary Club of Gwinnett.
• Won the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Public Service Award in 2017, was named Georgia Trend’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2018, received the Trailblazer Award from the 100 Black Men of Metro Atlanta in 2019.
• Economic Development: job creation, utilize smart zoning policies and maximize use of vacant retail space.
• Wants to invest in regional transportation and walkability by funding micro & mass transit options and exploring technological advances in transit.
• Wants to prioritize investment in literacy, community & civic infrastructure, advance career & workforce training.

Lee Thompson Jr. (D) campaign suspended

• Attorney
• Platform: Public transportation, Infrastructure , Economic Growth, Homelessness, Criminal Justice reform,affordable housing, Voting Rights, Transparency, immigration, Public Safety
• Suspended campaign and asks that supporters and all Democrats to support Nicole Love Hendrickson in her campaign saying, “My opponent is a woman; she is an African American; and she is twenty years younger than me. When I started this campaign, I said that I wanted to give a voice to those who felt excluded by their government.”

County Commissioner, District 3

Derrick J. Wilson (D)

• Originally from Houston, Texas. Currently the majority owner of a tax preparation and bookkeeping company. First time Politician.
• Member of Gwinnett NAACP, Gwinnett County Young Democrats
• Stood against the racist comments made by current commissioner Tommy Hunter towards Rep John Lewis (D)
• Wants to: Champion diversity and inclusion by making a concerted effort to recruit and retain a diverse workforce; Implement a comprehensive, long-term transit plan; Coordinate more closely with nonprofit social service agencies to address issues like homelessness and opioid addiction; See the creation of a Gwinnett County Small Business Certification program that would provide advocacy, training and procurement opportunities for small businesses;
• For paying police officers a competitive wage to retain the best police officers. Says on average, Gwinnett is paying 20k less than surrounding municipalities and counties.
• Advocates for a County sponsored, Early Childhood Education Program in partnership with both Gwinnett County Public Library and Gwinnett County Public Schools so kids are kindergarten ready.

Jasper Watkins III (D)

• Retired military and pharmacist
• Ran in 2016 narrowly lost to Tommy Hunter (R)
• Transportation and Infrastructure: Conduct a transit study to improve public transportation and amend county ordinance to protect and sustain county Green Spaces. Improve water quality and increase testing.
• Community Development: Create tax incentives to attract business to the county; re-develop, and re-purpose unused vacant spaces; Address access to low incoming housing and senior housing.
• Public Safety: Create a public safety oversight advisory board led by Community Members; Establish a forum to facilitate information sharing and discussion across all segments of public safety; Provide proper training to non-healthcare personnel to combat opioid addiction.
• Endorsed by District 55 Senator Gloria Singleton Butler

Ben Archer (R)

• 20 years working in Gwinnett County Public Schools and worked for the City of Lawrenceville, the Gwinnett County Government
• 1st time politician
• Lifelong resident of Gwinnett County
• Focused on public safety and maintenance of infrastructure

Matt DeReimer (R)

• Former Sandy Springs Police Officer for 10 years, small business owner, and first time politician
• Lifelong resident of Gwinnett
• Says his Christian faith will guide his decision making
• Wants to: Attract and retain the best public safety officers through competitive pay, benefits, training and cultivate strong ties with the community; Address sex-trafficking; Strengthen programs that build community and educate on county services; Partner with organizations to address social concerns like homelessness and substance abuse

Senate, District 9

Nikki Merritt (D)

• Grew up in Georgia and has a people first
approach to social and economic change in Georgia
• Believes the state must continue to expand options for assistance, eligibility, and support programs designed to help small business and their employees
• Will fight to preserve the essential services that are lifelines for working and low-income families
• Supports: Extending healthcare coverage for new moms; Fully funding K-12 schools; Expanding unions; Making post-secondary education affordable and keeping HOPE funding in line with yearly tuition cost increases
• For strengthening voter protections and pledges to support legislation that would create an independent, nonpartisan redistricting commission to end partisan gerrymandering
• Wants investments in roads, transportation solutions, and other essential infrastructure
policies that preserve Georgia’s beauty and strengthen the economy, like incentives for alternative energy solutions and telework options that get cars off the road
• Vows to protect civil rights by passing comprehensive civil rights legislation; committed to solutions to end police brutality and racial targeting

Gabe Okoye (D)

• An immigrant from Nigeria; moved to GA in 1981 and has lived in Gwinnett County since 1992
• Served as the Chairman of the Gwinnett County Democratic Party and currently serves on the County’s Planning Commission
• Main goal is to restore true representation to the district and will not impose his personal beliefs/issues on you
• Asks that you to tell him the issues that are important to you and on his honor, he promises to fight for those issues on your behalf
• Wants to bring all bills back to the district, call a meeting of the voters, explain each bill and have you vote on each one of them. Once back at the senate floor, “I will represent you by voting in the same way the majority in the district voted on each bill.”
• Feels this will keep lobbyists at bay

Sheriff

Curtis Clemons (D)

• Marine Corps veteran with 30 years of law enforcement experience. Served as a jailer, Inmate Transportation Supervisor and a Warrants/Civil process while a Gwinnett County Deputy Sheriff before becoming a Gwinnett Police Officer
• Wants residents to feel comfortable interacting with law enforcement and alleviate the sense that the justice system unfairly imprisons the poor, homeless or mentally disabled.
• Says he will work with community groups and orgs to provide job skills and support programs to reduce recidivism. Will work with animal control to provide rehabilitation animals for inmates
• Will train deputies to de-escalate situations

Keybo Taylor (D)

• 26 years of law enforcement experience in Gwinnett: Served in the FBI Drug Task Force, Lieutenant and Unit Commander of the Gwinnett County Drug Task Force. Oversaw East and South Gwinnett Police precincts.
• First African American to be promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the history of the Gwinnett Police Department
• Wants to combat violent felony offenses, human trafficking, sex crimes and reduce the number of non violent offenders that are incarcerated or mental health and substance abuse issues.
• Wants to end Gwinnett’s participation in the 287(g) program
• Serves as a substitute teacher and football coach for various Gwinnett County high schools

Superior Court Judge Gwinnett Judicial Circuit

Kathy Schrader Incumbent

• Incumbent since 2012
• Says “traffic court is the gateway to criminal court” and believes traffic court is a great intervention opportunity for youth on the wrong path
• Attributes youth speeding to video games
• Says she has implemented therapeutic, educational, life coaching, job programs and accounts for mental health disorders in the courts to reduce recidivism
• Believes in restorative justice
• One of 10 in the state to receive the Justice Robert Bentham Award for Community Service in 2018
Over 30 years experience
• “Stood trial earlier this year on computer trespassing charges. The case originally stemmed from Schrader suspecting she was being hacked – by Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter. Ultimately, she and three others – including the Dragon Con co-founder Ed Kramer, who she employed to ‘hack back’ were accused of illegally accessing the Gwinnett County Justice Center computer network. The case went to trial in February which resulted in a mistrial.” (11Alive)

Deborah R. Fluker

• Over 20 years experience in law
• First African American Assistant District Attorney in the Northeastern Judicial Circuit
• Served as Assistant District Attorney in Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, Supervising Assistant DA in the Gwinnett County DA’s Office, Associate Municipal Court Judge and Magistrate Court Judge in Suwanee, and Associate Judge in Dacula Municipal Court
• Believes all parties have the right to understand the basis for decisions made by the Judge
Endorsed by Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys

Tax Commissioner

Tiffany Porter (D)

• Wants to bring transparency, community outreach and accountability to the tax commissioner’s office
• First African American Judge for the Duluth Municipal Court and certified NFL agent
• Appears weekly as a legal analyst for the Court TV network
launched two law firms that specialize in real estate, tax, criminal defense, and business law and established Zenith Sports and Entertainment Group, a career management practice for professional athletes and entertainers.

Regina M. Carden (D)

• Served as CFO and Associate Director for several Veteran Affairs hospitals for 36 years
• Has managed large operations with comprehensive budgets, including a $1.9 billion budget while Acting Deputy Network Director for the VA Southeast Network
• Top issues are: Enhanced Office Efficiency and Transparency; Enhanced Customer Service and Employee Satisfaction; Expansion of Tag Office Hours; Enhanced awareness of Homestead Exemption options for seniors and all eligible residents; Elimination of language/communication barriers for our diverse community

Tony Brown (D)

• 20+ years in law enforcement
• U.S. Air Force veteran working as an intelligence officer, military police and federal special investigator
• Previously ran for coroner
• Wants better leadership and a better work environment for the Sheriff’s Office so employees can do their job without worrying about their boss’s political agendas and job safety.

Reginald Scandrett (D)

• Former Chief Deputy of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office
• A career law enforcement officer, former jail division commander and detention officer
• Vice President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives Georgia Chapter and founder of Metro Atlanta Chief Jailors Group
Wants to establish programs that reduce recidivism
Foster strong, viable & sustainable community relationships
• Collaborate closely with neighboring and distant jurisdictions to mitigate crime
• “Tough, yet restorative” stance on crime (whatever that means) wants to empower victims to participate effectively in dialogue or mediation with offenders.
Foster employee engagement to provide better customer service

Board of Education, District 2

Josh Hinton Incumbent

• Elected to the board in 2012
• Championed for a teacher pay raise in the 2019-2020 budget and voted to purchase classroom resources for teachers so they don’t have to rely on using personal money to buy things they need.
• Focused on securing employee positions and compensation during these economic times to maintain a high quality staff
• Important to invest in the security of school campuses and student safety.
• Would like to see the continued investment in one-to-one student devices
• Supports an aggressive replacement plan for the bus fleet to remove older buses from the road. Believes the board should consider a second bus maintenance shop on the west side of I-75 so that drivers travel fewer miles for routine maintenance and state inspections.
• Believes proven leadership right now is a must and he has the experience and knowledge to keep the positive momentum going for student success and employee satisfaction.
• Hinton along with the school board faced a law suit after hiring a superintendent and then revoking the job offer

Makenzie McDaniel

• Retired United Army Reserves and police officer with DeKalb County on the South Precinct
• Currently serving on the Luella Elementary School Council, member of the Connecting Henry Board of Directors and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee.
• Believes all students deserve equality in education and opportunity, a safe school bus to ride, to be proficient in reading and math and positioned for success after high school.
• Will support teachers from discipline to resources and investing in their educational development to competitive salaries.
• Bus drivers deserve a competitive salary and wants to keep parents and community involved.
• “The manner in which Mr. Josh Hinton [and others] conducted themselves in the superintendent search was abhorrent and inexcusable. The consequences of their actions is a financial liability to the taxpayers of this county.” “We must have elected officials who see the content and character of a person and not the color of their skin.” “It is time for us in District 2 to elect someone who is more concerned about the students and their well-being versus the well-being of the powerful.”

Theodore “Ted” Jackson, Incumbent

• Former FBI and Homeland Security Exec,
worked with Obama admin,
• Trying to build up mental health programs in prisons.
• Has created more initiatives for literacy and vocational programs to inmates.
• You can judge him on his handling of COVID in prisons and these protests (not great).

Patrick “Pat” Labat

• 10 years as Chief of Corrections.
• Wants to prioritize: domestic violence warrants over minor offenses and investing in community education rather than only in prisons
• Advocating for more mental health and addiction recovery resources in prisons
• No language about being tough on crime on the website

District Attorney

Paul Howard (D), Incumbent

• Has been the DA since 1997.
• Under investigation for funneling $140K from the city into his salary.
• Sued by former aide over gender discrimination for being fired after announcing her pregnancy.
• Was MeToo’d by former administrator.

• 16 years in the DAs office, and 2 years running her own practice
• Called the DAs office broken for not properly investigating before charging, trying to invest in youth programs and lowering the turnover rate in the office

School Board, District 1

Franchesca Warren

• Educator for 18 years
• Supports policies to help decrease the amount of testing our students experience in school, collaboratively working on literacy and mathematics strategic partnerships to help our students to be able to communicate in the 21st century
• For partnering with existing mentorship programs to help curb youth crime
• Supports wraparound services (i.e. mental health, food insecurities, homelessness, etc.) for our most vulnerable students and their families

Sandra C. Wright

• Professor of educators
• Pushing for open and transparent communication about what the school district is doing
• Wants to get Fulton county schools up to speed technologically and increase opportunities for teacher advancement

Superior Court Judge, Atlanta Judicial Circuit

Tamika Hrobowski-Houston

• Served as an appointed judicial officer in the Fulton Superior Court’s Family Division since 2016 hearing cases involving child custody, visitation and domestic violence.
• Also served as a deputy prosecuting attorney, special assistant U.S. attorney, federal government counsel, judicial officer in the Fulton Superior Court’s family division and ran her own solo office as a civil and criminal law.
• Biggest Issues: Efficiency, Accessibility to court resources like lawyers and fee help, under utilization of specialty courts.
• Biggest Issue facing the court system: Efficiency. Increased efficiency requires upgrades to existing technology. Advocates for upgrading, or finding an alternative to, the current case management system.
• Need for definitive disaster planning for alternate operating procedures in the event the courthouse is unavailable to staff and the public.
serves as a judge in temporary protective order and domestic violence matters in the Fulton Superior Court’s family division.
• Served as campaign manager for Geronda V. Carter, Clayton County’s first elected African-American Superior Court judge.
• Supports mental health interventions.

Melynee Leftridge Harris

• Fulton magistrate judge since 2010
• Prior, she was a part-time magistrate and civil litigator and worked as an assistant prosecutor for the Fulton County district attorney.
• “As a judge, I have presided, by designation, over cases in the Superior and State Courts, as well as, Magistrate Court. During the 17 years before becoming a full-time judge, I served as a prosecutor in the Fulton County district attorney’s office and as a civil trial lawyer. Earlier in my career, I served as a judicial staff attorney on the Fulton County Superior Court and the Georgia Court of Appeals.”
• Plans on implementing several processes to ensure cases that were stalled due to the pandemic are efficiently worked through.
• “I will stay in the office as late as it takes to ensure we remain on schedule.”
• Supports the early release of non-violent detainees from custody and case backlog due to Covid
• International Brotherhood of Police Officers Local 623 contributed to her campaign.
• Also endorsed by Georgia Equality, an LGBTQ advocacy group.

Robert Patrick (D)

• Served on Doraville City Council, worked as a City Planner in Norcross
• Served as VP and Pres. of Dekalb Municipal Association
• Wants to: Fix the aging water and sewer infrastructure in neighborhoods (plans to work with developers, community improvement districts, municipalities, and property owners to collaborate on solutions)

Cynthia Yaxon (D)

• Retired entrepreneur
• Not a career politician – no experience
• Main priorities are to create economic stability,
public safety and accountability for those in office.

Board of Commissioners, District 6

Maryam Ahmad (D)

• A public health data analyst and community activist
• Born and raised in Dekalb, attended public schools and Emory University
• Supports lowering the county’s overall tax rate to try to mitigate some of the negative effects of COVID-19
• “As DeKalb citizens, we have the right to representation, integrity, and sustainability of the district. I want to see the county grow, by always putting the communities’ needs first.”

Edward “Ted” Terry (D)

• Progressive former mayor of Clarkston
• Currently serves on the advisory board for the Global Village Project and as a member of the Dekalb County Board of Health
Priorities are:
• Affordable housing:
– Establish an Affordable Housing Trust to help with down payment assistance, rent payments or critical home renovations or energy efficiency retrofits.
– Legalize tiny homes and cottage court neighborhood developments to support more housing options, addressing the “missing middle” problem.
– Preserve neighborhoods by establishing anti-displacement funds to help eligible low-income families stay in their homes.
• Transit equity, the green new deal, criminal justice reform and voting rights

Board of Education, District 3

Willie R. Moseley Jr.

• Believes in the value of students learning trade skills
• Plans to arrange for mentors programs that will equip high school students with the necessary skills to land them a job in the technical field

Deirdre Pierce

• Cultural competency should be prioritized and intentional in K-12 schools year-round
• Advocates for a full analysis to be conducted to determine the feasibility of implementing a full Financial Literacy program, to be taught daily in some format, to K-12 students
• Focused on grade level preparedness, as well as college and career readiness,
• Supports the District’s Family Engagement Department programs, particularly the free Adult GED program
• Seeks resolution to our teacher shortage, retention and in-school support concerns

Sheriff

Melody Maddox (D) Incumbent

• The current Sheriff of Dekalb County and a former police chief. She is She is the first female to ever hold this position.
• Her top priorities are for the law enforcement of Dekalb County to embrace a culture of Excellence, Accountability and Respect, including in the ways in which the office carries out constitutional responsibilities, the way inmates are treated, and the way they interact with the community.
• Sheriff Maddox does not support 287(g), cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. • Maddox states that she will continue to connect inmates with needed services and employment opportunities and ensure they are treated with dignity and respect.

Ruth “The Truth” Stringer

• US Marine Corps Vet
• 30 years at Sheriff’s Office
• Appointed and served as Interim Sheriff in 2017
• Her current priorities, if elected, include:
adding a merit system, eliminating the mold issue within Dekalb County Jail, allowing people to visit the jail 24 hours a day, shift differential pay for officers working evening watch, “better locks to prevent inmates from getting out of their cells,” adding mandatory annual defense tactics training for officers to protect themselves, and improving the overall image of the Sheriff’s Office to rebuild the community’s trust.
• Committed to a deep review/restructuring of financial books within the Sheriff’s Office.

State Representative, District 86

Michele Henson (D) Incumbent

• Incumbent since 1991
• Advocate for children and families and providing quality healthcare to all Georgians
• Instrumental in getting children’s dental insurance included in the Peach Care program
• Believes quality public school education should not depend on where you live
• Wants to create solutions to the problems we face and restore the trust in DeKalb County government
• Plans to forge public-private partnerships between industries and local collegesfor job training
• Encourages wearing your masks and practicing social distancing
• Wants to tackle gang violence in communities and makes it clear that this is separate from BLM
• Wants to end sale of professional style fireworks in communities

Zulma Lopez (D)

• Resident of DeKalb County and District 86 for 12 years
• Attorney licensed to practice in the State of Georgia and Puerto Rico. Has her own private firm in DeKalb County for the past 5 years specializing in immigration
• Will invest in education, including expanding preschool programs and ensure that children receive a quality education regardless of location
• Stands for a woman’s right to choose
• Wants to ensure affordable college and technical degree programs, access to affordable healthcare, and that we continuing to bridge the gap of job inequality and insecurity
• Lost her sister to cancer and her family having a hard time financial recovering from her medical expenses
• Believes in expanding Medicaid coverage to poor mothers, including offering more prenatal and postpartum health care
• Publicly threw out all goya products with the hashtag #iwillmakemyownadobo

Superior Court Judge, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit

Yolanda Parker-Smith

• Has 20 years experience as an attorney. Served at Assistant District Attorney in Fulton County Juvenile Court, a public defender in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit and Assistant District Attorney in Boston
• Active member of both the Florida Bar and the Georgia Bar
• Endorsed by Fulton County Juvenile Judge George G. Geiger and retired Judge George Blau
• Committed to “Compassion, courtesy and community”
• Feels like the poor and vulnerable are too often treated unfairly and with bias
• She prefers to defend juveniles over the State
• The idea of fair and balanced justice motivated her to run for office
• She believes credibility is the biggest issue facing the court system and the courts should be the one place where citizens can be confident that their issues will be based on objective reasoning and facts and not race, gender or income
• Says she would address this by ensuring that her rulings are based on the law and the facts; thus, restoring the citizens’ confidence
• Her and her family volunteered at a COVID testing site

Melinda “Mindy” Pillow

• Over 10 years experience in family law including adoption and child custody
• Wants to ensure fairness for all families in Dekalb
• 2010 Pro Bono Associate of the year at her former firm Kilpatrick before founding her own firm.
• Former President of the Junior League of Dekalb County, Atlanta Bar Association Family Law. Served on the Board of Directors of Leadership Dekalb, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, Atlanta Bar Association Family Law, Metropolitan Counseling Services and Dekalb History Center. Member of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)
• Believes that since this court sees mostly domestic family cases that makes her more fit for the role

Fitz Johnson (R)

• Served 21 years in the Army and served as a Medical Service Corps officer
• Believes the gang activity in Cobb county is out of control and says every high school in the county has some form of gang activity
• Wants to keep Cobb County taxes the lowest in the region, have the best public safety in the world and
tackle mobility and traffic to decrease trip times
• Believes that the citizens are first when it comes to the land use zoning
• Wants to make sure that they are involving the community with all the decisions that are made on land use issues.

Andy Smith (R)

• Wants to preserve the existing neighborhoods and then allow development or encourage development in the areas suitable for higher density
• preserving the character and density of established residential neighborhoods is his philosophy. ( sounds very exclusionary to me)
• Smith stated in and interview that the controversial Sterigenics facility in Smyrna should not be open unless it’s safe and two days later it was temporarily opened
• “My focus will be to do the job to eliminate the need for cities. Everybody wants Cobb County to remain the place it was when they settled here. It’s going to evolve but we want to have control of how it evolves.”
• supports the current process of seeking extensive community feedback before finalizing a project list however he want to ensure these are needs and not wants
• Controlling zoning to protect our neighborhoods

County Commissioner, District 4

Sheila Edwards (D)

• Served as the Assistant Executive Director for the Charter Review Commission for the City of Atlanta, Communications Director for the Fulton County DA’s office
• Wants to bring MARTA to Cobb and thinks we need a renewed commitment to transportation accessibility. Says residents in South Cobb should be able to get to Kennesaw State University and Town Center without using cars
• Fought against a waste transfer station tha
brought waste from other municipalities into the community while operating a few hundred feet away from homes and the Chattahoochee River
• Founded Legacy Cares, a grassroots community organization created to oppose expansion of the waste transfer station near homes and won
• Is looking at Tiny Homes as a way for veterans, seniors and homeless people on the rebound
• Would support a land bank authority, and would discourage the creation of more auto-related businesses along Veterans Memorial Highway.
• Feels we need effective community policing
• Worked at the Kennedy Space Center with Lockheed Martin in 1986, after the Challenger space shuttle exploded, to update the documentation to process and launch the space shuttles and helped reform the way they communicate during their shifts. It was apparently very chaotic before.

Monique Sheffield (D)

• Amend zoning laws to give residents greater control over the type of businesses that move into communities, don’t crowd our school systems and traffic solutions
• Supports “step and grade compensation”
• Wants to increase the number of sidewalks and trash receptacles on Riverside Pkwy and Mableton Pkwy
• Supports a capital improvement plan line item for transportation in the county’s budget, in addition to the current Special Project Local Option Sales Tax (T-SPLOST).
• Supports Atlanta region Transportation Link or the ATL authority, which will bring together 13 counties.

Clerk of Superior Court

Connie Taylor (D)

• Former member of the Cobb County Board of Tax Assessors, worked as a Governmental Grants Compliance Manager, is a licensed Real Estate Broker
• She serves on the Cobb County Library Trustee Board, SPLOST Oversight Committee, Cobb County Parks Bond Advisory Committee, Keep Powder Springs Beautiful and Keep Cobb County Beautiful Board.

Nancy Syrop (D)

• Nancy Syrop is an attorney with close to three decades of legal experience.
• Nancy has served as Pro Tempore Judge for the Juvenile Court of Cobb County and serves as a Guardian ad Litem in Superior Court.

Superior Court Judge, Cobb Judicial Circuit

Greg Shenton

• Has 20 years of experience representing small business owners and Fortune 500 companies
• Served on the Board of Directors of Kiwani’s Club of Marietta, member of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, Cobb County Board of Trustees and President of the Greenwood Homeowners Association
• Named Best Overall Attorney by Best of Cobb, 2019
• Will work to eliminate institutional biases and the disparity in access to the courts that comes with inequality–whether economic, racial, or otherwise
• Has fought for family-owned businesses and represented mothers owed back child support pro bono.
• Advocates for diversity on the bench and vote by mail
• Says bias and bigotry will have no place in his courtroom
• His campaigning included going around putting the American flag up

Jason Marbutt

• Has been a prosecutor for 15 years and is Senior Assistant District Attorney with the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office, Adjunct Professor at Emory School of Law and Chairman of the Cobb Elder Abuse Task Force (CEATF) and Mock Trial Coach at Walton High School
• Founded Justice for Elderly and Disabled Individuals Multidisciplinary Team (J.E.D.I. MDT)
• Passionate about elder abuse and very invested in white collar crime
• Advocates for vote by mail and protecting the elderly by fighting again scams directed towards them
• Vows to protect the elderly and disabled and fight against domestic violence against women
• Regularly trains law enforcement and other prosecutors on how to investigate and prosecute those cases
Believes his experience in protecting the most vulnerable citizens makes him most fit for the position

House District 35

Lisa Campbell (D)

• Running to ensure that Georgians have diversity in state government
• Dedicated to expanding equal access to quality education and affordable healthcare
• Wants to create laws, systems and investment strategies where everyone has equal access to make decisions about our own bodies, relationships and families.
• Supports #8cantwait, hate crime legislation, annually funding education and expanding tech resources
• Wants to repeal stand your ground law and citizen’s crime arrests
• Opposes teacher furloughs and tax cuts
• Wants to use lottery fund to bolster pre-k programs, dismantle unfair lending and affordable housing policies, increase transportation options, increase public health services in GA, protect reproductive rights and ensure fair elections
• Advocates for criminal justice reform at all levels and enacting fair hiring, equal pay and childcare practices

Kyle Rinaudo (D)

• Pro choice, decriminalizing marijuana and term limits for elected officials and will support efforts to pass anti-discrimination bills.
• Plans to repeal HB 481, stop dangerous conversion therapy and close the gun show loophole.
• For legislation that protects reproductive healthcare and wants to improve public health education and access to contraceptives.
• Plans to expand Medicaid, wants to expand access to mental health treatment options and improve and address racial disparity in maternal healthcare.
• Wants to fully fund public education every year, not just election years.
• For lowering Georgia’s carbon emissions and encourages green energy generation and cleaning our rivers and streams.
• Wants to invest in public transportation and utilize the Atlanta Transit Link for Cobb County’s benefit.
• Supports automatic voter registration, vote-by-mail and putting an end to gerrymandering.
• Supports Governor Deal’s criminal justice reform proposals (which removed some mandatory minimum sentences and released Georgians who had been incarcerated for low level offenses for much of their lives) that Governor Kemp is trying to undo.
Supports community policing and keep citizens safe.
Improve conditions at Cobb County’s jail.

Judy Johnson (D) Incumbent

• Running for a 3rd term
• Opposed to vote-by-mail
• Believes prayer should be put back in school
• Against abortion and believes the people who receive them are “baby murders”
• Feels we are living through Revelations and “the line between right and wrong has slowly been erased by society, television, pop culture”
• Supports free lunches
• Devout Christian and posts on her Facebook page indicates she will use it to influence school policy
• Posts “I support Law Enforcement.” graphics on Facebook and believes the schools police officers are mentors for the schools

Sabrina Hill  (D)

• Substitute teacher and as a volunteer at Clayton County Public Schools
• Worked for 35 years in city, local, and state government with the last 20 years in the Judicial System and has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Criminal Justice.
• Currently Serves on the: Saint Leo University Advisory Committee for Human Services; Board of Directors for DeKalb County Benevolent Funds Committee; Human Services Department Grant Review Committee; Hostess Board at Light of Joy church.
• The most pressing issue facing public education is the inequitable distribution of public school funds. There needs to be education reform at the state level to prevent funding inequities that hinder many children from receiving the quality education that they deserve.
• Ranks school funding priorities as: 1. Teacher Salaries, 2. Technology Integration 3. Facility Upkeep
• Supports daily on-site nurses, social workers and counselors at schools, theme school and charter school education, and the newly proposed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
• Believes the district should recruit at Historically Black Colleges and Universities as well as other diverse higher learning environments.
• Wants to expand trade professions of heating and air, plumbing, electrician, brick masonry and sheet metal journey men reduce the overuse of exclusionary discipline practices.
• Opposed to the Opportunity School District (OSD) referendum proposal, common core and unnecessary assessment testing.