Meet Keisha Lance Bottoms' family, including her husband and 4 kids
Keisha Lance Bottoms will soon be governor of the state where her great-great-grandparents were once enslaved. The former Atlanta mayor was elected governor of Georgia on Nov. 3, making her the first Black woman anywhere in the country to hold that position. Bottoms, who was born in Atlanta in 1970, has said she is the great-great-granddaughter of Shephard Peek, who was sold as a slave in 1826 in Crawfordsville, Georgia. In a 2019 X post , Bottoms said Peek is believed to have become a member of Congress after the Civil War. Two hundred years later, Bottoms was selected to lead her home state, making her one of five Black governor-elects in the United States after Tuesday's midterm elections. Bottoms, an attorney, has been married for more than three decades to Derek Bottoms, whom she met in law school and with whom she shares four children. Here's what to know about Bottoms' family. Keisha Lance Bottoms met her husband in law school Bottoms and her husband, Derek Bottoms, married in October 1994 . They both attended law school at Georgia State University. The two met as first-year law students in 1991 and were engaged in 1993 before graduating in June
