Ted Terry

Commissioner of DeKalb County Board of Commission, USA



In 2020, Commissioner Terry was elected to serve as the Super District 6 Commissioner of DeKalb County. His district includes half of the County with portions of South, Central, and North DeKalb, totaling approximately 350,000 residents. Commissioner Terry's policy focuses include affordable housing, transit equity, DeKalb Green New Deal, DeKalb voting rights, and criminal justice reform. He currently serves as Chair of the Operations Committee (OPS), as a member of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee (PWI), and as a member of the DeKalb Community Service Board (CSB), Prior to his election, Commissioner Terry served as the Mayor of the most ethnically diverse square mile in America: Clarkston, Georgia from January 2014 – March 2020, where he was the youngest Mayor in Clarkston’s 135-year history.