DEKALB COUNTY, GA—Right now, Dec. 18, the Steering Committee for the 2025 CEO Inaugural Week introduced Lorraine Cochran-Johnson shall be sworn in throughout a weeklong celebration set Jan. 8-12. Cochran-Johnson will take the reigns as the sixth Chief Govt Officer of DeKalb County, Georgia, making historical past as the primary African-American lady to carry the workplace within the state’s fourth-most populous county.
Cochran-Johnson shall be sworn in on Friday, Jan. 10, 5 to six p.m., at Emory College, Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church, 1660 N. Decatur Street N.E., Decatur. The Honorable Choose Penny Brown-Reynolds will administer the oath of workplace. The Honorable Choose Mark Scott will function the Grasp of Ceremony.
The weeklong celebration features a “Dialog on DeKalb: Previous, Current, and Future,” which shall be moderated by Cochran-Johnson that includes former CEOs: Liane Levetan; Vernon Jones; Burrell Ellis; and Michael Thurmond. There additionally shall be a gala, meet-and-greet with Cochran-Johnson and the First Household, and a countywide Day of Prayer hosted by New Delivery Missionary Baptist Church’s Pastor Jamal Bryant.
The momentous Inaugural Week will start a brand new section of imaginative and prescient and management poised to attain new heights for DeKalb’s greater than 763,000 residents, the Steering Committee said. Registration for the occasions will be discovered within the hyperlinks beneath:
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