Mary Norwood | |
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Member of the Atlanta City Council from the 8th district | |
Assumed office January 3, 2022 | |
Preceded by | J. P. Matzigkeit |
Member of the Atlanta City Council for the at-large district | |
In office January 2014 – January 2018 | |
Preceded by | Aaron Watson |
Succeeded by | Matt Westmoreland |
In office January 2002 – January 2010 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Mary Bush[1] March 25, 1952[2] Augusta, Georgia, U.S. |
Political party | Independent |
Spouse | Felton Norwood |
Education | Sweet Briar College Emory University (BA) |
Website | Official website |
Mary Norwood (born 1952)[3] is an American businesswoman and politician who is a member of the Atlanta City Council. She was a candidate for mayor of Atlanta in 2009 and 2017. In both campaigns she advanced to the runoff, but respectively lost to Kasim Reed and Keisha Lance Bottoms by narrow margins. In addition to her mayoral runs, she represented city-wide posts on the Atlanta City Council from 2002 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018. [4][5][6] She resides in the Tuxedo Park neighborhood of Atlanta's Buckhead community.
Ms. Norwood was born in 1952 in Augusta to Bill Bush, a brick manufacturer, and Frenchie Battey Bush, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.