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JANNINE MILLER
SUE PARR
FRANK PATTERSON
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEORGIA REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, ATLANTA-REGION TRANSIT LINK
AUTHORITY, STATE ROAD AND TOLLWAY AUTHORITY
PRESIDENT & CEO, AUGUSTA METRO CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
PRESIDENT & CEO, TRILITH STUDIOS
Few individuals in the state wear as
many hats as Miller, heading up
three major transportation
authority and serving as a singular
voice behind the interconnected agencies.
She brings federal-level experience to
Georgia, having worked as a senior advisor
for then-Transportation Secretary Elaine
Chao and later for then-Agriculture Secretary
Sonny Perdue during the first Trump
administration.
As the head of the Central
Savannah River Area’s largest
advocacy group, Parr represents
more than 1,200 businesses and
organizations across the sprawling, 13-county
region. Over her 20 years running the show,
she has put an emphasis on wedding the
region’s education system to its business
community, with notable successes in the
field of cybersecurity.
NATALIE MORHOUS
CEO, RACETRAC INC.
A third-generation leader at
RaceTrac, Morhous has overseen a
period of tremendous growth
during her time at the Atlanta-based company. Today it sits as the 18th
largest private company in the U.S., 2nd in
Georgia, with nearly 800 locations and 10,500
employees across 13 states.
WILLIAM S. MORRIS IV
PRESIDENT & CEO, MORRIS COMMUNICATIONS
Will Morris, an accomplished
media executive and businessman,
is the third generation of Morris
men to lead the Augusta-based
company. An influential hometown booster,
Morris has worked to grow his family’s
company’s broad portfolio beyond print
publishing to include online news and
services.
SUZANNE NADELL
NEWS DIRECTOR, WSB-TV
Formerly an executive producer at
WSB before moving up the ladder
at other Cox-owned news stations
around the country, Nadell
returned to Atlanta in 2019 to take the reins
at one of the Southeast’s best-known news
teams. Alongside GM Marian Pittman,
Nadell continues to guide the station to
strong ratings.
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Patrick C. Jones
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Chris Cannon
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEORGIA SHERIFFS’ ASSN.
As the chief advocate for all 159 of
the state’s elected sheriffs and
their deputies, Norris is one of the
strongest law enforcement voices
under the Gold Dome. He has been in the
thick of recent legislation including criminal
justice reform and raising deputy pay. He
also helps oversee the Georgia Sheriffs’
Youth Homes, which provides housing and
care for abused and abandoned children.
DAVID PERDUE
NOMINEE FOR AMBASSADOR TO CHINA
Born in Macon and raised in
Warner Robins is, as this is written,
awaiting U.S. Senate confirmation
as President Donald Trump’s choice
to serve as the United States ambassador to
Communist China. The one-time U.S. senator
from Georgia (2015-2021) previously enjoyed
a successful business career which involved
heading several large companies including an
Atlanta-based global trading firm.
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Mat Swift
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Cade Joiner
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Dallas Smith Chair
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Tom Bradbury
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Richard “Tim” Evans
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Haynes M. Studstill
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Jim Syfan
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Harold Reynolds
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David Dove Vice Chair
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Everett Kennedy
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Dan Murphy
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TERRY NORRIS
The largest purpose-built film
studio in North America, Trilith is
the crown jewel of Georgia’s
multi-billion-dollar film industry.
Over the past decade Patterson has grown
the Fayetteville studio into a full-fledged
community that includes homes, restaurants,
retail and even a micro-school.
Lowery Houston May
SONNY PERDUE
CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA
Overseeing Georgia’s 26 public
colleges and universities, with a
$10 billion annual budget and
more than 340,000 students, is a
tall task. Luckily the successful businessman, former state legislator, two-term
Georgia governor and U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture under President Donald Trump
(2017-2021) has demonstrated, since April
2022, that he is well equipped and qualified
to be an effective chancellor.
TYLER PERRY
PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, PHILANTHROPIST
In the early 1990s Perry poured his
life savings into a production of
the play, I Know I’ve Been Changed.
It was a failure. Nearly a decade of
rewrites and persistence later and it became a
smash hit, sparking a television and film
career that would make Perry the highest
paid man in entertainment. Tyler Perry
Studios at Atlanta’s Fort McPherson is among
the largest in the nation, and Perry rubs
shoulders with some of the biggest names in
politics as a Democratic mega-donor.
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James Hull
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Erin Hames
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Samuel D. Holmes
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Neil L. Pruitt, Jr.
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Dr. Deep Shah
ROBB PITTS
CHAIRMAN, FULTON COUNTY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS
A fixture in Atlanta politics, Pitts
helped bring the Olympics to the
South in the 1990s and served as
president of the Atlanta City
Council where he was known as the “taxpayers’ watchdog.” He remains a force in
Georgia’s most populous and important
county, overseeing issues from homestead
tax exemptions to elections systems.
