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2 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, August 19, 2009
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Baker Receives Inaugural Barack
Obama Political Leadership Award
Rodney G. Moore, president of the National Bar Association (left) and Mavis Theassa
Thompson, president-elect of the National Bar Association (right) present Georgia’s Attorney
General Thurbert Baker with the award. Photo credit - Eugene Mebane.
The National Bar
Association (NBA) presented
Georgia Attorney General
Thurbert Baker with its first
annual Barack Obama
Political Leadership Award at
its 84th annual meeting in San
Diego, California on Friday.
The award recognizes Baker’s
pioneering achievements as a
public servant and elected
official.
Baker, a Democrat from
Stone Mountain, is Georgia’s
first African-American
Attorney General, having
served in the office since
1997. During this time, he has
been the only elected African-
American Attorney General in
the nation. A s
Attorney General, Baker has
successfully managed the
state’s legal affairs for more
than two decades. He has
always made protecting fami
lies and children a top priority.
He promoted tough new laws
against sexual predators who
target children via the Internet,
and has aggressively worked
with local prosecutors and
police to bring those who tar
get children online to justice.
Baker has also been a leading
voice against domestic vio
lence. He fought to make it a
crime to commit an act of
domestic violence in the pres
ence of a child and he’s
worked with local law
enforcement to fight family
violence.
Prior to his service as
Attorney General, Baker
served for five terms in the
Georgia House of
Representatives.
As Floor Leader, Baker
led the fight to pass some of
the most significant legislation
in modem Georgia history,
including the institution of the
state lottery and the lottery-
funded HOPE Scholarship
program.
He was the lead sponsor
of the largest tax cut in
Georgia history -the removal
of the state sales tax on gro
ceries. He also led the fight to
pass tough new laws against
drunk driving, strengthening
the state’s notoriously weak,
outdated drunk driving laws,
and helped bring Georgia to
the forefront in the battle
against DUI.
Baker said, “I am hum
bled and honored to be the
first person to receive the
National Bar Association’s
Barack Obama Award. I hope
to live up to the honor by con
tinuing to bring people togeth
er to solve the tough problems
facing Georgia.”
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