Shortly after Lucy McBath took the oath as a member of Congress on Thursday, she dedicated the first action of her tenure to her late son.
McBath, a Marietta Democrat who narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Karen Handel for the 6th District seat in November, voted for Nancy Pelosi to become Speaker of the U.S. House.
As she did so, McBath said she was doing it “in memory of my son Jordan Davis.”
He was a student at Marietta High School in 2012 when he was shot and killed at a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla. The man later convicted of the shooting and sentenced to life in prison was complaining about loud music coming from a parked car in which Davis was a passenger.
McBath, a former Delta Air Lines flight attendant, became a gun-control advocate as a result, working for the Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense organizations.
She was planning to run for a state house seat, but cited the Parkland, Fla., high school shootings last February in switching to become a candidate for Congress.
The 6th District includes most of East Cobb, much of Sandy Springs and North Fulton and North and Central DeKalb. She is the first Democrat to serve in the seat since 1978, when Newt Gingrich was first elected.
Pelosi was elected Speaker for the second time, getting 220 votes to 192 for Republican Kevin McCarthy, previously the House Majority Leader. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams got one of the other Democratic votes.
McBath’s official Congressional website has just been activated. Her committee assignments and district office locations have not been announced. The Washington office phone is 202-225-4501.
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