Mesha Mainor

State Representative Mesha Mainor served her first legislative term during the 2021-2022 sessions. The 2021-2022 session was one of the most contentious sessions for Georgia and America. Elected leaders voted on election reform, redistricting, constitutional carry, school choice, gang crimes, COVID-19, critical race theory, and the defund the police movement.

Rep. Mainor is a member of the Georgia General Assembly Governmental Affairs, Education, and State Planning & Community Affairs committees. She was nominated to attend the 2021-2022 Georgia Legislative Leadership Institute at the University of Georgia; appointed Vice-Chair of a Georgia Local Redistricting and Elections subcommittee; created the Fulton Technology and Energy Enhancement Authority to decrease energy burden in marginalized communities and increase the workforce development opportunities in technology and renewable energy. Rep. Mainor also passed H.R.798 which creates the House Study Committee on Cannabis Waste. The study committee will research and develop legislation on the benefits of using discarded portions of the cannabis and hemp plants. Particularly, Rep. Mainor is most interested in the production of biofuel from cannabis waste.

Representative Mainor published her first-year legislative highlights, including her controversial votes as a Democrat. "Voting across party lines is isolating in a highly politicized society, but, if voting against my party is best for my community I'd do it again," according to Representative Mainor. Many of her Democrat colleagues campaigned against her due to her commitment to people over party. The 2021-2022 controversial bills that made headlines include her support for the GA Special Needs Scholarship for children with disabilities; anti-defund the police legislation; increasing funding and infrastructure support for Georgia's Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act programs; and drawing the Fulton County Board of Commissioners' redistricting map after the Board and others failed to present a map to the State Reapportionment office by the deadline to ensure the County could operate its 2022 May primary elections.

In 2000, she began working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. She was a speechwriter and research analyst for the Assistant U.S Surgeon General, Dr. Helene Gayle. In this role, she was responsible for foreign and domestic public health presentations, legislative testimonies, film and radio productions, and co-authored journal articles.

Mesha Mainor (born May 17, 1975), is an American politician from Georgia. Mesha Mainor is a Democrat member of the Georgia House of Representatives for District 56. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from Benjamin E. Mays High School. She began her political career in Washington, D.C. working with Congressman John Lewis. She received a master's degree in physical therapy at Howard University in 1999. While residing in Washington, D.C., she worked at the U..S. Agency for International Development under the leadership of Dr. Jacob Gayle in the Global Health division.