Lee Morris Elected Fulton Commission Vice Chair

SANDY SPRINGS, GA — Fulton County commissioners have elected Lee Morris to serve as the body's vice chair for 2019. Morris was unanimously selected to serve at the Board of Commissioner's Jan. 9 meeting.

Morris represents District 3, which includes the southern part of Sandy Springs, Buckhead and parts of Midtown. He was first elected to the Fulton County Commission in 2014.

Morris, 69, was born in Greenville, Alabama, but was raised in Washington, D.C., He graduated from Duke University and practiced as a CPA in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to the county. He later enrolled in Emory University School of Law.

After graduation from Emory, he practiced tax, corporate and pension law in Atlanta for nine years. For more than 30 years, he served as general counsel and CFO for an Atlanta architectural-engineering firm until he retired in 2017, according to his website.

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Morris also served on the Atlanta City Council from 1993 to 1997. As a City Council member, Morris helped initiate Atlanta's sidewalk building program, introduced traffic-calming to the city, sponsored what many consider the first transit-oriented zoning in the region around the Buckhead MARTA Station and wrote much legislation which strengthened the neighborhoods in the city.

He has also served the State of Georgia on the Board of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, on the Georgia Public Defender Council and in leadership capacities of many community organizations.

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