Mike Thurmond | |
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| Chief Executive Officer of DeKalb County | |
| Assumed office January 1, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Burrell Ellis |
| Labor Commissioner of Georgia | |
| In office January 11, 1999 – January 10, 2011 | |
| Governor | Roy Barnes Sonny Perdue |
| Preceded by | Marti Fullerton |
| Succeeded by | Mark Butler |
| Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 67th district | |
| In office 1987–1993 | |
| Preceded by | Hugh Logan |
| Succeeded by | Mike Polak |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 5, 1953 Athens, Georgia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Zola Fletcher |
| Children | Mikaya |
| Education | Paine College (BA) University of South Carolina, Columbia (JD) |
Michael L. Thurmond (born 5 January 1953) is an American author, attorney and politician serving as the chief executive officer of DeKalb County, Georgia. A Democrat, he was previously a representative in the Georgia Assembly.
Thurmond served as the interim superintendent of the DeKalb County School District, the third largest district in the state of Georgia from 2013 to 2015. The district serves nearly 99,000 students with over 13,400 employees. Thurmond was the Democratic Party's nominee for United States Senate in 2010. He was also one of the last Democrats to win statewide in Georgia until 2020, when Joe Biden won the state in the 2020 presidential election.
Prior to becoming DeKalb's Schools Superintendent, Thurmond was an attorney at Butler Wooten Cheeley & Peak LLP, a nationally known civil trial practice that has four times set the record civil jury verdict in the State of Georgia and also obtained for its client the largest collected judgment in U.S. history.