Michelle Au | |||||||
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Member of the Georgia House of Representatives for the 50th district | |||||||
Assumed office January 9, 2023 | |||||||
Preceded by | Angelika Kausche | ||||||
Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 48th district | |||||||
In office January 11, 2021 – January 9, 2023 | |||||||
Preceded by | Zahra Karinshak | ||||||
Succeeded by | Shawn Still | ||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | New York City, United States | June 21, 1978||||||
Political party | Democratic | ||||||
Children | 3 | ||||||
Residence | Duluth, Georgia | ||||||
Education | Wellesley College (B.A.) Columbia University (M.D., M.P.H.) | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Chinese | 欧晓瑜 | ||||||
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Michelle Hsiao Au (Chinese: 欧晓瑜[1]) is an American anesthesiologist and politician from Georgia. Au has served in the Georgia House of Representatives as a Democratic member for District 50 since 2023.[2] Au previously represented the 48th District in the Georgia State Senate and was the first Asian American elected to that body.[3][4] In December 2021, Au announced that she would not be running for re-election in Senate district 48 but instead would run for election in Georgia state House district 50 due to the Republican controlled state legislature re-drawing her district.[5]
In 2011, Au published her book This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies),[6] which according to a review, "exposes the reality of medical education and the irony within the practice of medicine that physicians are human, but our patients want us to be more".[7]