The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners will host an meeting 10 a.m. Friday to introduce District 1 Commissioner-elect Nancy Jester to the public.

A Republican, Jester defeated independent Holmes Pyles in a runoff election Tuesday.

Jester replaces Elaine Boyer, who pleaded guilty to defrauding taxpayers of $93,000 and resigned in August.

She will represent more than 140,000 people in Brookhaven, Chamblee, Doraville, Dunwoody, Tucker and surrounding areas.

Jester ran on a platform promising to be a watchdog over taxpayer money and give the public online access to government financial records.

The runoff election was needed because none of the five candidates in the Nov. 4 election received more than 50 percent of the vote.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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