Bee Nguyen


Bee Nguyen is a Georgia state representative from Atlanta, Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected during a special election in December 2017 to fill the seat vacated following Stacey Abrams' resignation in August 2017 to focus on her run for governor. Nguyen is the first Vietnamese-American elected to the Georgia House of Representatives.
Born in Augusta, Georgia, Nguyen attended Georgia State University, and moved to Atlanta in 1999. She is Christian.
She is the executive director of a non-profit organization she founded, Athena Warehouse, a program to provide prom dresses in exchange for community service. In November 2018, BizJournals included her on a list of 40 under 40s. Nguyen described her charitable work as helping to "focus her desire to reduce economic disparity".

Political career

Following Abrams' resignation from the state legislature, four candidates announced efforts to succeed her, in what was described as possibly "the most racially diverse slate of legislative hopefuls in Georgia history", including "a white man, an African-American woman, an Indian-American man and a Vietnamese-American woman". In addition to being the first Vietnamese-American to win election to the Georgia House, Nguyen was the first Asian-American Democratic woman to hold a state office in Georgia. In 2018, when Amazon.com was vetting cities for its proposed Amazon HQ2, expected to generate 50,000 jobs in the host city, Nguyen opposed several immigration-related bills which she asserted would hamper Atlanta's chances of being selected based on Amazon's stated preference for building in a community with a diverse population. In June 2020, Nguyen was reported to have won the Democratic nomination for reelection to her seat by a wide margin.

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