Lisa Michelle Borders (born November 251957) currently serves as president of the Atlanta, Georgia, City Council, having been elected citywide in an August 10, 2004 special election, her first run for public office. Her duties include presiding over council meetings, appointing committee chairs, and maintaining relationships with the city government's executive branch.
Borders also serves as a senior vice president of Cousins Properties, Incorporated, an Atlanta-based real estate investment trust. Her duties include external affairs, marketing, communications, and community reinvestment. Borders previously worked in the health care industry for over fifteen years, serving as the chief administrator for Atlanta Women's Specialists and as vice president of operations for Healthcap Atlanta, a physician practice management company later acquired by FPA Medical Management.
Borders' public-sector work has primarily focused on women and children's issues in the areas of education, healthcare, and housing. She serves as a trustee of The Westminster Schools, from which she graduated in 1975, as a board member of Clark Atlanta University, and as a director of Saint Joseph's Healthcare System. She is a member of Leadership Georgia and recruits and interviews students for her alma mater, Duke University, where she also serves on the board of visitors. She has recently resigned from the boards of Research Atlanta, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Teach For America, Great Schools Atlanta, and the Salvation Army in an effort to devote time to her council presidency.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree from Duke University and a Masters of Science in Health Administration from the . She has one son, Garry, a student at Georgia State University.
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