Keisha Lance Bottoms Makes History as First Black Woman Elected Governor in the U.S.

11/04/2026

Her victory follows Georgia reelecting its first Jewish senator, Democrat Jon Ossoff, alongside its first Black senator, Raphael Warnock

11/04/2026

A former mayor of Atlanta, Bottoms served in the position from January 2018 to January 2022 and later served as a senior adviser to Biden's 2024 re-election campaign

11/04/2026

Keisha Lance Bottoms has made history by becoming the first Black woman elected governor in US history. The former Atlanta mayor defeated Republican Rick Jackson in Georgia, breaking a political...

11/04/2026

Lance Bottoms defeated billionaire health care executive Rick Jackson, the Republican candidate. Outgoing Republican Governor Brian Kemp was term-limited and could not run again

11/04/2026

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman governor of Georgia, while Democrat Gina Hinojosa is set to become Texas’s first Latina governor.

11/04/2026

Hinojosa becomes Texas’s first Latina governor, Bottoms the first Black woman elected governor in the US, and Haaland the first Native American woman to lead a state