Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to give fall convocation at Candler
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will deliver the fall convocation at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology on Aug. 30.
The event, which begins at 11:05 a.m., is closed to the public, but will be livestreamed.
The convocation in Cannon Chapel opens the 2018-2019 academic year.
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An Atlanta native, Bottoms is the city’s 60th mayor and the second woman to hold that office.
She earned degrees from Florida A&M University and Georgia State University’s College of Law. Prior to becoming mayor in January 2018, Bottoms served as a lawyer, judge, city councilmember, and executive director of the Atlanta-Fulton County Recreation Authority .
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