Austell area resident Lisa Cupid has announced her candidacy for the Cobb County Commission.

Cupid, a Georgia Tech engineering graduate and facilitator of the Austell Community Taskforce, is vying for the district 4 seat in southwest Cobb currently held by Woody Thompson. Cupid has lived in the south Cobb area for nine years.

In addition to Cupid, Michael Rhett, a sergeant in the Air Force Reserves who has a doctorate in education from the University of Georgia, has also announced his intentions to run for the post. Rhett ran unsuccessfully for the seat in 2008.