Born: 18 January 1970, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
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Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected the 60th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia in 2017. She had previously served in the Atlanta City Council for eight years representing District 11 in southwest Atlanta and won a highly competitive election to become the second black woman ever to be elected mayor of Atlanta. Prior to that, Bottoms was a prosecutor, and also represented children in juvenile court. In 2002, she became a magistrate judge. As mayor, Bottoms she signed an executive order forbidding the city jail to hold ICE detainees. In February 2020, Bottoms released Atlanta’s first LGBTQ Affairs report, focusing on how various policies, initiatives, and programs could improve the lives of LGBTQ Atlantans. In 2018 she had created the city’s LGBTQ advisory board and in December 2020, Bottoms appointed the city’s first director of LGBTQ Affairs, and announced the continued LGBTQ advisory board leadership.