Upon his retirement, U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson was honored by the Cobb County Board of Commissioners with a proclamation on Jan. 14 for more than 40 years of service to the state of Georgia and Cobb County.
A Marietta native, Isakson is the only Georgian ever to have been elected to the state House, state Senate, U.S. House and U.S. Senate, according to a Cobb County statement.
Before this proclamation, in December 2016, the Cobb roadway known as the Johnson Ferry Bridge officially was named “U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson Bridge” in his honor.
Entering government service in 1974, Isakson served for 17 years in the Georgia legislature in both the House and Senate.
In 1999, he was elected to the U.S. House for the first of three terms.
Then in 2004, he was elected to his first term in the U.S. Senate and won reelection in 2010 and 2016.
Isakson has served on five key U.S. Senate committees in the 116th Congress.
A veteran, he was selected to serve as chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics.
Isakson has served on the Ethics Committee since 2007, including as chairman of the committee since 2015 and as vice chair of the committee from 2009 until 2014.
He also served as a member of the Senate Committees on Finance, Foreign Relations and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
A 1966 graduate of The University of Georgia, Isakson served in the Georgia Air National Guard from 1966 to 1972.
In 1967, he began his successful business career when he opened the first Cobb County office of a small, family-owned real estate business, Northside Realty, which grew into the largest independent residential real estate brokerage company in the Southeast and one of the largest in America.
Isakson and his wife Dianne attend Mount Zion United Methodist Church, where Isakson previously taught sixth grade Sunday school for 30 years.
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