Commissioner Kathie Gannon

Kathie Gannon has served on the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners since January, 2005 representing Super District 6, the western half of DeKalb County. Super District 6 includes portions of South, Central and North DeKalb County with approximately 350,000 residents. Commissioner Gannon was elected Presiding Officer of the Board of Commissioners in 2008 after serving two terms as Deputy Presiding Officer. In 2009 she was elected to the Board of Managers of the Association of County Commissions of Georgia (ACCG) and serves on the National Association of Counties (NACo) Steering Committee for Environment, Energy and Land Use. Commissioner Gannon's primary focus has been in the areas of land use and planning, the environment and conservation, protection of established neighborhoods and issues that impact our youth and senior citizens.

Commissioner Gannon has been actively involved in DeKalb County issues since the 1980's serving on DeKalb County's Planning Commission, Community Council and providing leadership to her community's 3,000 household civic association.

Commissioner Gannon was the founding Executive Director of Georgia CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), a statewide non-profit that provides trained volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children. She also founded the statewide citizen and judicial Foster Care Review program and has served on several boards of directors. As a self-employed consultant to non-profit organizations, she provided guidance in the areas of organizational and program development, community and social services advocacy as well as historic preservation.

Married for 38 years, she and her husband have two grown sons and have lived in DeKalb County since 1972. Commissioner Gannon earned a BA in political science from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, a Masters in Social Work from the University of Georgia and a Masters Certificate in Heritage Preservation, from Georgia State University.