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Keisha Lance Bottoms is a lawyer and politician in the United States. Bottoms was elected as the 60th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, in 2017. She was a member of the Atlanta City Council representing Southwest Atlanta before being elected mayor. She began her career as a lawyer and in 2002 was appointed as a magistrate judge in Atlanta. In 2008, she ran for a judgeship on the Fulton Superior Court but lost.

Her Twitter username @KeishaBottoms has over 299.8k followers.

What is the net worth of Lance Bottoms?

Keisha Lance Bottoms is an American politician and lawyer who is that the 60th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia who has Net Worth of $1 million- $2 million.

What is Keisha Lance Bottoms Famous For?

• Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia for the 60th time.

Where is Keisha Lance Bottoms From?

On January 18, 1970, Keisha Lance Bottoms was born. In the United States, she was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a citizen of the United States. Major Lance was her father, and Sylvia Robinson was her mother. She is of African-American ancestry. Her religious beliefs are agnostic.

Capricorn is her zodiac sign. She has eight half-siblings from her father’s previous marriages. Shepherd Peek, a freedman from a plantation near Crawfordville who may have served in the Georgia state assembly during Reconstruction, can be traced back five generations in her family tree.

She attended Frederick Douglass High School in terms of her education. Also She attended Florida A&M University after graduating from high school. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the university. In 1994,  graduated from Georgia State University College of Law with a J.D.

Is Keisha Lance Mayor of Atlanta?

• Her professional career began as a prosecutor.
• She also acted as a lawyer for minors in juvenile court.
• 2002, she was appointed as a magistrate judge in Atlanta.
•  2008, she ran for a judgeship on the Fulton Superior Court, but was defeated.
•  2009, she was elected to the Atlanta City Council. She was a member of the Atlanta City Council for District 11 in southwest Atlanta.
• In 2013, she was re-elected to a second term on the Atlanta City Council.
• Beginning in 2015, she served as the executive director of the Atlanta Fulton County Recreation Authority.
• In 2017, she ran for Mayor of Atlanta.

More on her Career

• In a runoff election, she defeated fellow City Council member Mary Norwood to become Atlanta’s 60th Mayor.
• During the election, she was investigated for making multiple large lump payments to campaign personnel totaling over $180,000 that were not properly recorded. In October 2017, she voluntarily refunded $25,700 in campaign contributions from PRAD Group. PRAD Group’s office was raided by the FBI in September 2017.
• In November 2017, she requested that Georgia’s attorney general investigate fraudulent robocalls made in her name, which her campaign claimed were laced with racist overtones and targeted predominantly white Atlanta communities.
• In 2018, she signed an executive order prohibiting the city jail from housing ICE detainees.
• She endorsed Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2020.
• The 2020 Democratic National Convention has nominated her as a permanent co-chair.

• She frequently chastised Trump for exacerbating the crisis, which had been exacerbated by the death of George Floyd.
• After Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced the reopening of Georgia businesses during the COVID-19 epidemic in April 2020, Bottoms objected.
• In July 2020, she signed an executive order reverting parts of the city’s reopening measures to Phase 1 and mandating everyone to wear a face covering within city bounds.
• Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia signed an executive order suspending all local mask mandates. On July 16, Kemp filed a lawsuit in Superior Court against Bottoms, claiming that her order was unlawful and that she was forbidden from speaking about it.
• When the judge rescued herself, a hearing scheduled on July 21 was postponed.

Who is Keisha Lance Bottoms Husband?

Bottoms, Keisha Lance, is a married woman. Derek W. Bottoms is her husband. Her husband works for The Home Depot as the vice president of employment practices and associate relations. Prior to that, he worked at the law firm Powell Goldstein for nearly five years. They met when they were both students at Georgia State University’s School of Law. In October of 1994, the pair married.

There are no biological offspring for the couple. They tried biologically but were unable to conceive. Lincoln, Langston, Lennox, and Lance were the four children they adopted afterwards. On July 6, 2020, she reported that she had tested positive for COVID-19.

 Height and Weight

Keisha Lance Bottoms is of average height and weight in the United States. She has a slender physique. Her sexual orientation is that of a straight woman. Her eyes are dark brown, and she has black hair.