Former Georgia State Senator Bill Stephens is the son of a welder and a teacher and a sixth generation native of Fannin County in the North Georgia Mountains.
Stephens was elected to the Georgia Senate in 1998 serving eight years and rising from a back bench Freshman to Senate Majority leader in less than five years. As a result of the Redistricting process, Senator Stephens represented 13 different North Georgia counties in the Senate at one time or another.
Following his Freshman Term, his colleagues elected him as Senate Republican Caucus Chairman, where he helped bring about and lead the historic transition of the Senate from Democratic to Republican control in the election of 2002. Following that historic election, Stephens became a member of Governor Elect Sonny Perdue’s Transition Team, and it’s Spokesperson.
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