Alex Su-chi Wan () is an American politician. He was the first

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member of the Atlanta City Council, elected to the position for District 6 in the November 2009 municipal election. He speaks both English and Mandarin Chinese. Since March 3, 2021, Wan serves as Chairman of the Fulton County Board of Elections.

Early life and education

Wan graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering in 1988 from The Georgia Institute of Technology, and subsequently went on to Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to obtain a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance, graduating in 1993. In 2011, Wan complete
Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as
David BohnettLGBTQ Victory Institute
Leadership Fellow.

Atlanta City Council

In 2009, Wan ran for the open city council seat in District 6 against several candidates including Bahareh Azizi, Steve Brodie, Tad Christian, Liz Coyle, and Miguel Gallegos. Wan and second-place finisher Liz Coyle entered a run off. Wan was endorsed by fourth-place finisher Steve Brodie, a gay man who campaigned for the seat in 2005 against then-incumbent and also openly gay Anne Fauver, as well as the Victory Fund, Georgia Equality, Buckhead Coalition and gay educator Charles Stadtlander. Of the six initial contestants in the race for the council seat, Wan was the only recipient of an "Excellent" grade by Committee for a Better Atlanta. In 2013, the councilman championed legislation supported by neighborhood associations and NPU F to remove existing adult businesses from Cheshire Bridge Road by 2018, but the Atlanta City Council voted it down. It was also opposed by a mix of gays, strippers and Atlanta's real estate interests – including Scott Selig. Some in the gay community wondered if Cheshire Bridge were "sanitized", "where would people go for sexual expression"? Matthew Cardinale, the editor and publisher of ''Atlanta Progressive News'', and resident of the Road, decried "the ongoing project of gentrification, homogenization, sterilization and capitalization of a historic neighborhood," Atlanta's "

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"."What to do with Cheshire Bridge Road?", Jordan Friedman, Feb 15, 2013, ''Creative Loafing''
/ref> In January 2017, Wan announced his candidacy for Atlanta City Council President. Wan lost in a runoff election in December 2017 to

Felicia Moore Felicia A. Moore is an American politician who served as the President of the Atlanta City Council. She was elected to the office in a December 2017 runoff election. She previously held the post of City Council member for District 9, serving for ...

References

External links

AlexWanForAtlanta.com
- Campaign site {{DEFAULTSORT:Wan, Alex 1967 births Living people American people of Singaporean descent American politicians of Chinese descent American politicians of Taiwanese descent Atlanta City Council members Gay politicians Georgia Tech alumni Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni American LGBT people of Asian descent American LGBT city council members Asian-American city council members Asian-American people in Georgia (U.S. state) politics 21st-century LGBT people Politicians from Columbia, South Carolina LGBT people from South Carolina LGBT people from Georgia (U.S. state)