Stacey Abrams

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Stacey Abrams
File:Stacey Y. Abrams.jpgRepresentative Abrams
Website	www.staceyabrams.com

Stacey Y. Abrams is the House Minority Leader for the Georgia General Assembly and State Representative for the 84th House District.

Education

Abrams received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Political Science, Economics and Sociology) from Spelman College, magna cum laude. She graduated from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin with a Masters of Public Affairs in public policy. Abrams received her J.D. from the Yale Law School.

Georgia General Assembly

Abrams is the first woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly and is the first African-American to lead in the House of Representatives. Representative Abrams represents portions of the City of Atlanta, the City of Decatur and unincorporated DeKalb County. covering the communities of Candler Park, Columbia, Druid Hills, East Lake, Highland Park, Kelley Lake, Kirkwood, Lake Claire, Oakhurst, South DeKalb, Toney Valley and Tilson. Abrams serves on the following committees: Appropriations, Ethics, Judiciary Non-Civil, Rules and Ways & Means.

Business

Abrams co-founded and acts as Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of NOWaccount Network Corporation, a financial services firm. Stacey also co-founded Nourish, Inc., a beverage company with a focus on infants and toddlers. She also owns Sage Works, a legal consulting firm, that represented clients including the Atlanta Dream WNBA team. Formerly, Stacey was Deputy City Attorney for the City of Atlanta, the youngest in Atlanta’s history. Prior to her tenure at the City, she was Special Tax Counsel at the Sutherland Asbill & Brennan law firm in Atlanta, with a focus on tax-exempt organizations, health care and public finance.

Writing

Abrams has published articles on issues of public policy, taxation and nonprofit organizations, including pieces with The American Prospect, The Christian Science Monitor, Yale Law and Policy Review, U.S. News and World Reports and the Southern University Law Review. Under the pen name Selena Montgomery, Abrams is the award-winning author of several romantic suspense novels. Her novels have sold more than 100,000 copies. Selena Montgomery was the winner of both the Reviewer’s Choice Award and the Reader’s Favorite Award from Romance In Color for Best New Author, and was featured as a Rising Star.

Awards and Recognition

In 2012, Abrams was recognized as one of “12 Rising Legislators to Watch” by Governing magazine and one of the “100 Most Influential Georgians” by Georgia Trend. She has been honored as a Legislator of the Year by the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals, as Public Servant of the Year by the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Champion for Georgia Cities by the Georgia Municipal Association, as Legislator of the Year by the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce. She received the Georgia Legislative Service Award from the Association County Commissioners Georgia, the Democratic Legislator of the Year from the Young Democrats of Georgia and Red Clay Democrats, and an Environmental Leader Award from the Georgia Conservation Voters. She has been recognized for outstanding legislative performance as a multi-year Arnie award recipient from Creative Loafing. Abrams is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly, an American Marshall Memorial Fellow and an alumnus of the Leadership Georgia, Leadership Atlanta and the Regional Leadership Institute. She has received the Stevens Award for Outstanding Legal Contributions and the Elmer Staats Award for Public Service, both national honors presented by the Harry S. Truman Foundation. She also served as a Georgia delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Background

Abrams is the daughter of the Reverends Carolyn and Robert Abrams, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and is the second of six children.

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