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Capitol: 404.463.5260 FAX: 404.656.5043 District: 678.215.9971
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Senator Georgia State Senate
Room 121-H State Capitol 206 Washington Street, SW Atlanta, GA 30334
District Office: PO Box 1074 Jonesboro, GA 30237
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Elected: 2010 Next Election: 2024 | |
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BioSenator Gail Davenport was sworn into the state Senate in 2007, representing Senate District 44, which currently includes portions of Clayton and DeKalb counties.
She currently serves as Secretary of the Special Judiciary Committee and is a member of the Appropriations,
State Institutions and Property, Urban Affairs and Veterans,
Military and Homeland Security Committees.
Senator Davenport is a member of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, Georgia Legislative Womenis Caucus, Working Families
Agenda Caucus, WILL/Women Legislatorsi Lobby, National
Black Caucus of State Legislators, National Organization of Black Elected Legislators, and served as the Chairwoman of the Clayton County Legislative Delegation for
2013-2014 term.
She is a graduate of Spelman College, America's oldest historically
black college for women, a life member of the National
Alumnae Association of Spelman College, recipient of
the 2008 Merit Award by the National Alumnae Association
of Spelman College, the 2002 Spelman College Board of
Trustees Community Service Award, and the Atlanta Chapteris
2001 Outstanding Alumna Award.
Senator Davenport has been a life-long advocate of education. In
September 1997, she established the Henry and Clara Dixon
Education Fund in honor of her maternal grandparents. The fund
helps students purchase books while attending college. She also
founded COLLEGE BOUND, a residential summer program that exposes high school students to the college experience and
encourages their pursuit of higher education.
She was a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National
Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, NC, pledged to President
Barack Obama, a delegate in the 2008 DNC in Denver,
CO, pledged to Senator Barack Obama, a delegate to the
2004 DNC in Boston, MA, pledged to Senator John Kerry,
and the 1988 DNC in Atlanta pledged to the Rev. Jesse L.
Jackson, Sr.
Senator Davenport is also a member of the following
organizations-
h Atlanta Business League
h Empire Board of Realtists, Inc.
h National Association of Real Estate Brokers
h National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP)
h Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
h Rainbow PUSH Coalition
h Life Member iV National Council of Negro Women
h Life Member iV National Alumnae Association of Spelman
College
h American Business Womenis Association
Senator Davenport is presently a real estate professional
with Success Atlanta Real Estate and Investment having
worked in the real estate industry for three decades. She
has conducted workshops on home ownership for she believes in idemocracy in housingi and that every citizen deserves to
experience the American dream of home ownership. Senator Davenport has conducted Home
Foreclosure seminars and worked with HUD certified counSenator Gail Davenport
Senate District 44
selors to assist homeowners in foreclosure prevention.
She is a member of Andrews Chapel United Methodist Church, Jonesboro, Georgia, where she serves
as a communion stewardess, member of the United Methodist Women, Hostess Committee, and
Building Committee. She has served as a member of the Church Development Committee, Nominating
Committee of Griffin District and Vice President of the United Methodist Women, Griffin District.
She is the daughter of Mrs. Helen Dixon Davenport and the late Nathaniel Davenport and the sister
of Carolyn Davenport.
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