Mike Boyce, the late Cobb Commission Chairman, and his wife Judy Boyce were named the 2022 East Cobb Citizens of the Year Thursday morning.
The announcement came at a breakfast of the East Cobb Area Council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce at Indian Hills Country Club.
Mike Boyce, who died earlier this year at the age of 72, and his wife were active in the East Cobb community long before he was elected in 2016.
Their activities included MUST Ministries, Mt. Bethel Church and veterans and military organizations. He was a retired Marine Corps colonel who was a leader of a men’s ministry at Mt. Bethel and helped found a veterans support center.
Judy Boyce is a retired Delta Air Lines flight attendant who has been active with the Cobb Republican Women’s Club and other political campaigns and volunteer activities.
They include the Daughters of the American Revolution, Cobb Master Gardeners, the Chattahoochee Plantation Women’s Club, the Cobb Center for Children and Young Adults and the Cobb Library Foundation.
Also on Thursday, Cobb officials were on hand at the North Cobb Regional Library to dedicate the Mike Boyce Military Collection, including his many books on military history, and reading room named in his honor.
The Boyces were avid supporters of libraries. At the January 2018 ribbon-cutting for the Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center, they contributed $5,000 and had a study room named for them.
A Republican, Mike Boyce ran for a second term in 2020 but was defeated by Democratic commissioner Lisa Cupid.
In January, he was participating in a leadership seminar in Indiana, at the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater, when he suffered two strokes and died.
“He had never been happier than he was in the past few months, participating in this program, bicycling to campus and interacting with and mentoring students,” Judy Boyce said at the time. “He was having the time of his life.”
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