Senate District 41 since 2003 and formally

represented Senate District 55 from 1991-1999.

Sen. Henson currently serves as the Minority

Leader for the Senate Democratic Caucus and is

the Vice Chairman of the Urban Affairs Committee.

He also serves on the Administrative Affairs,

Government Oversight, Health and Human Services,

Natural Resources and the Environment,

Reapportionment and Redistricting, Regulated Industries

and Utilities and Rules committees. Sen.

Henson is chair of the DeKalb County Senate

Delegation. He has the distinction of being

the past chair of the DeKalb Democratic Party.

A DeKalb resident for over thirty years, Sen. Henson

graduated from the University of Georgia with

a bachelor’s degree in Economics. He is

a vocational administrator and teacher at Henson

Training Institute and has been an officer

and member of numerous community

and civic organizations over the years, such

as- Tucker Jaycees, Stone Mountain Exchange

Club, DeKalb Lung Association, League of

Women Voters, PRISM, Georgia Advisory Council

for the Mentally Ill, Georgia Epilepsy

Board and others.

-January 2013, Senate Press Office