Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will seek a second term in 2021, her spokesperson confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday.
Bottoms narrowly defeated Mary Norwood in a December, 2017 runoff election by less than 1,000 votes.
“I don’t have any reaction at all,” Norwood told the AJC. “Good for her.”
Bottoms is pictured with her husband, Derek W. Bottoms, at last month’s UNCF Mayor’s Masked Ball in Atlanta.
The mayor’s accomplishments in 2019 include announcing a comprehensive plan to build affordable housing, creation of a housing innovation lab, eliminating cash bail bonds for low level offenders, restricting the use of city-issued credit cards for personal expenditures, and establishing “Open Checkbook” online so the public can review the city’s spending.
In an interview with GeorgiaTrend magazine last month, which named her 2020 Georgian of the Year, Bottoms said she gave historic pay increases to the city’s police and fire department employees.
Atlanta City Councilman Julian Bond praised Bottoms and said the announcement that she plans to seek reelection is “comforting.” He said he doesn’t think anyone can beat her.
