Jeffrey Eugene Mullis (December 27, 1959) is an American politician and a former member of the
Georgia State Senate
The Georgia State Senate is the upper house of the Georgia General Assembly, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The Georgia State Senate and the lower house of the General Assembly, the Georgia House of Representatives, comprise the bicameral leg ...
. A member of the
Republican Party, he represented the 53rd district from 2001 to 2023 after an unsuccessful run for state senator in 1998.
Mullis is from
Chickamauga. He currently serves as executive director of the
Northwest Georgia Joint Development Authority
The Northwest Georgia Joint Development Authority (NWGAJDA) is a joint development authority that serves Catoosa County, Chattooga County, Dade County, and Walker County in the U.S. state of Georgia.
The NWGAJDA was created under general st ...
and chairman of the Top of Georgia Economic Development. He was appointed to the Stone Mountain Memorial Association Board by Governor Kemp in 2023. He is married to Teresa Nichols and has three children.
In 2021, Mullis sponsored election reform legislation in Georgia. The bill would end no-excuse absentee voting and restrict absentee voting to those who are over 75, have a physical disability, or are out of town.
He sponsored the legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic and shortly after the 2020 elections, when Democratic candidates won one of Georgia's U.S. Senate seats as well as Georgia's electoral college votes in the presidential election.
Political career
Mullis has served in the
146th,
147th,
148th and
149th Georgia General Assemblies.
Georgia State Senate positions
* Committees
** Rules - Chairman
** Chairman of the Economic Development Subcommittee of Senate Appropriation
** Appropriations - Member
** Banking and Financial Institutions - Member
*
Caucus
A caucus is a group or meeting of supporters or members of a specific political party or movement. The exact definition varies between different countries and political cultures.
The term originated in the United States, where it can refer to ...
es
**
Republican Caucus – Vice-chairman
** Sportsman's Caucus – Co-chairman
Awards
* 2020 Legislative Champion of the Year. Named by the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians (GAFP).
See also
*
List of state government committees (Georgia)
References
External links
Welcome to the Georgia General Assembly!Legis.ga.gov. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
* https://ballotpedia.org/Jeff_Mullis
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Republican Party Georgia (U.S. state) state senators
Living people
People from Walker County, Georgia
1959 births
21st-century members of the Georgia General Assembly