ATLANTA — Five months after leaving her role as President Joe Biden’s Senior Advisor and Director of the Office of Public Engagement, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will take over a new role as part of the President’s Export Council.
The Council, which was founded in 1973, advises the president on matters relating to U.S. export trade and reports to the president on activities and ways to expand the country’s exports.
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Bottoms, who was the Mayor of Atlanta from 2018 through 2021, left her advisory and Office of Public Engagement role in February of 2023. She took on the job in the summer of 2022 and at the time said she was stepping away to be home with her family.
The 53-year-old Democrat has deep roots in Atlanta and is married with four kids. Before being elected Mayor in 2018, Bottoms had served as an Atlanta City Council member for 8-years.
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In her new role on the export council, she’ll replace the man who she replaced in the Office of Public Engagement, former Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond. She expressed her gratitude on social media.
I am honored to be appointed a member of the President’s Export Council. https://t.co/hoHdzVNWpl pic.twitter.com/9MGgEgRpvz
— Keisha Lance Bottoms (@KeishaBottoms) July 14, 2023
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