Brookhaven recently named a clerk known to cities around the metro area as its first city clerk.

Susan D. Hiott had served 10 years as clerk in Smyrna before being named to the same job in Brookhaven. She also worked as a clerk in Roswell and Acworth.

Hiott holds an MBA degree from Kennesaw State University and a bachelor’s degree in business from North Carolina Wesleyan College in North Carolina. She will earn $85,000 a year in Brookhaven.

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney — pictured during a hearing Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 — has cleared the way for Georgia's State Election Board to obtain Fulton ballots and other documents from the 2020 election. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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