Brown said in his 30-year career he served in all three divisions of the sheriff’s office: jail, courts and law enforcement — the only candidate who had done so, he said. Brown officially retired in 2023 and has run his own private security firm for 17 years.
Farmer said she served as a jail deputy for 15 years, was promoted to sergeant in 2003, then after another 15 years transferred to training other officers. She retired in 2018, and now works as a reserve lieutenant for East Point’s police department, she said.
Longtime Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand has one Democratic rival, Duvwon Robinson. Robinson’s campaign Facebook page indicates he ran for Superior Court Clerk in 2016. He ran for Atlanta City Council in 2017 but was disqualified before the election, according to Ballotpedia.
All three Fulton County Commission seats up for election will be contested.
District 2 incumbent Bob Ellis doesn’t have an opponent in the Republican primary, but two Democrats will compete to face him in the November general election.
They are Megan Rue Harris, described as a financial services professional; and Jennifer Phillippi, CEO of insurance technology company Consolidated Risk Solutions.
In District 4, incumbent Natalie Hall’s recent legal embarrassment drew two Democratic primary opponents.
Moraima “Mo” Ivory is a law professor at Georgia State University, director of GSU’s Entertainment, Sports and Media Law Initiative. Sonya Ofchus’ campaign website describes her as owner of L’Amour Chic in Fayetteville and cofounder of translation firm Host Nation Perspectives SWA. She also has nearly 30 years of law enforcement experience as a former Atlanta police officer, federal probation officer, U.S. Department of Education fraud investigator and postal inspector, according to her website.
In September, other Fulton County commissioners censured Hall following a federal hearing on her affair with a former chief of staff. Early this year a federal…
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