Keisha Waites


Keisha Sean Waites is an American politician from the state of Georgia. A Democrat, she served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2012 to 2017, representing southeast Atlanta, College Park, East Point, Hapeville, Forest Park, Hartsfield Jackson Airport, Porsche Headquarters and parts of Clayton and DeKalb counties.

Early life and career

Born in 1972 at Grady Hospital, Waites attended Lakeside High School in Atlanta and graduated in 1991. She then attended Georgia Southern and Atlanta Metropolitan College and graduated with a degree in political science. In 2014, Waites completed program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as a Leadership Fellow.
Waites's qualified for the District 60 House seat on January 9, 2012. In the special election, she took 54.2 percent of the vote compared to 18.6 percent for Theresa Middlebrooks and 27.2 percent for Latrenka Riley, thus avoiding a runoff.
Waites resigned from her House seat on September 18, 2017, to run for the chairship of the Fulton County Commission. She lost to incumbent Robb Pitts. She ran in the Democratic primary for Georgia's 13th congressional district against incumbent David Scott, coming in second place in a field of four candidates.

Personal life

Waites is openly LGBT.