Lucia Kay McBath is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from a district in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia since 2018.
33 Facts About Lucy McBath
2.
Lucy McBath represented from 2019 to 2023, and has represented the neighboring 7th district since 2023.
3.
Lucy McBath then became an advocate for gun control, joining other mothers of black murder victims to form the Mothers of the Movement, and spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
4.
Lucy McBath ran for the House of Representatives in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Karen Handel and defeating her again in 2020.
5.
Lucy McBath switched to the 7th district after redistricting in 2020 made the 6th significantly more favorable to Republicans; she defeated the 7th's incumbent, Carolyn Bourdeaux, in the Democratic primary and won the general election.
6.
Lucy McBath was born in Joliet, Illinois, on June 1,1960.
7.
Lucy McBath's father, Lucien Holman, was a dentist who owned The Black Voice, an African-American newspaper, and served as president of the NAACP's Illinois chapter.
8.
Lucy McBath attended Virginia State University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1982.
9.
Lucy McBath attended a speech by President Barack Obama on gun violence at the White House and supported the My Brother's Keeper Challenge.
10.
Lucy McBath joined the gun control advocacy group Mothers of the Movement, which consists of African American women whose children have been killed by gun violence.
11.
Lucy McBath campaigned actively for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and spoke on her behalf at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
12.
Lucy McBath created a foundation, Champion In The Making Legacy, to help high school graduates continue their education and training.
13.
Lucy McBath appeared in the 2015 documentary film The Armor of Light, in which Rob Schenck, an anti-abortion Evangelical minister, discusses gun violence in America; The Armor of Light won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary.
14.
Lucy McBath became the first Democrat to represent this district since it moved to Atlanta's northern suburbs in 1993.
15.
Lucy McBath was discussed as a possible candidate in the 2020 Georgia Senate special election.
16.
In November 2021, Lucy McBath announced that she would run for reelection in the 7th district, held by fellow Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux.
17.
Lucy McBath cosponsored the Honoring American Veterans in Extreme Need Act, which gives disabled veterans bankruptcy protections.
18.
Lucy McBath co-sponsored legislation to extend Pell Grant eligibility to college students if their school closed or if school officials committed institutional fraud or misconduct.
19.
Lucy McBath has said she supports funding programs that give women "autonomy over their reproductive decisions".
20.
Lucy McBath supports expanding Medicaid in Georgia, and would lower the age of Medicare eligibility to 55.
21.
Lucy McBath has said she is critical of some of the 2017 Republican tax cuts, but would like to make the temporary middle-class tax cuts permanent.
22.
Lucy McBath voted for the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.
23.
Lucy McBath initially decided to run for Congress because she believed the government was not doing enough to prevent gun violence.
24.
Lucy McBath opposes abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
25.
For instance, in the aftermath of the Mueller investigation, Lucy McBath was one of 137 Democrats to vote to kill an impeachment resolution.
26.
In October 2019, Lucy McBath voted in favor of launching an impeachment inquiry into Trump.
27.
Lucy McBath sits on the House Judiciary Committee, which has been tasked with handling some impeachment-related business.
28.
On December 18,2019, Lucy McBath voted for articles of impeachment against Trump on the House Judiciary Committee.
29.
Lucy McBath grew up in a military family; her father, brother, nephew and cousin all served in the US military in some capacity.
30.
In 1993, Lucy McBath was rushed to the emergency room while pregnant with her first son, Lucien.
31.
Lucy McBath suffered a fetal demise and was admitted to the hospital to deliver Lucien naturally.
32.
Lucy McBath is a Christian and named her son after the River Jordan in the Bible.
33.
Lucy McBath is a longtime member of Eagles Nest Church in Roswell.