| Senator Sally Harrell, a Democrat, was elected in
2018 to serve the 40th Senate District which includes portions of Dekalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties.
Sen. Harrell is a member of the Senate Ethics, Higher
Education, and Natural Resources and the Environment Committees.
Sen. Harrell was a member of the Georgia House of
Representatives from 1999 to 2005, where she was
a member of the Education, Human Relations & Aging, Children & Youth, and Appropriations Committees. As a State Representative, Sen. Harrell championed a wide range of women's and children's issues,
advocating for mental health and disability services
and mandatory recess for children. Sen. Harrell also
helped pass a law protecting mothers who breastfeed
in public and was an advocate for various non-profit
organizations.
Prior to serving in the Legislature, Sen. Harrell was
the Executive Director of the Healthy Mothers,
Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia. She received her
Masters of Social Work from the University of Georgia
and a Bachelor Degree from Georgia State University. |