Mary was born and raised in Augusta, Georgia. She attended Sweet Briar College and has a bachelor's degree from Emory University. She is chair of the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods. Norwood was also on District Attorney Fani Willis' "Restoring Integrity Transition Team" to provide Fulton County's incoming District Attorney with concrete recommendations. She lives with her husband live in Tuxedo Park.

Mary was the COO for a radio broadcasting company. She was also "the founder of a computer telephony company, the president of a national business organization and the former principal broker of a Georgia-based real estate firm."

Mary Norwood has run to be Mayor of Atlanta twice, once in 2008 and again in 2016. She was an at-large City Council member for Atlanta from 2002 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018.

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As of August 9, 2021, Mary Norwood’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Public Services

COVID

City Budget

As a city council member, she worked with Atlanta's Housing Department to start a "Home Atlanta Program," offering down payment assistance and low-interest mortgages.

As a city council member, she wanted to restrict builders from developing "McMansions," which are oversized homes on smaller lots.

- As a city council member, she worked with Atlanta's Housing Department to start a "Home Atlanta Program," offering down payment assistance and low-interest mortgages.
- As a city council member, she wanted to restrict builders from developing "McMansions," which are oversized homes on smaller lots.

Housing & Urban Development

Wants to put more police on city streets.

Plans to develop a new recruitment plan for the police force and to call for new leadership within the Atlanta Police Department.

She "helped establish citizen involvement programs in the Fulton County Court System: Community Restorative Boards at Juvenile Court and Court Watch at Superior Court."

- Wants to put more police on city streets. 
- Plans to develop a new recruitment plan for the police force and to call for new leadership within the Atlanta Police Department.
- She "helped establish citizen involvement programs in the Fulton County Court System: Community Restorative Boards at Juvenile Court and Court Watch at Superior Court."

Public Safety

Wants to improve city services and fix streets, roads and sidewalks.

- Wants to improve city services and fix streets, roads and sidewalks.

Transportation & Infrastructure

Said, "zoning and development codes must be written and enforced so that our neighborhoods and quality of life are protected, which includes protections for our tree canopy."

- Said, "zoning and development codes must be written and enforced so that our neighborhoods and quality of life are protected, which includes protections for our tree canopy."

Zoning

Mary Norwood

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