Professional Highlights
Mayor Bobby Peters is a lifelong resident of Columbus. In 1998
he became the first Mayor in the history of the Columbus
Consolidated Government to be elected to a second term. His
first term began in 1994 after he won election in a field of six
candidates without a runoff. He won every minority precinct
in the city despite the fact that there were two minority
candidates on that mayoral election ballot. He has
demonstrated consistently that he genuinely cares about the people
in every part of the community.
He graduated from Hardaway High School, then went on to earn a
BS degree in Criminal Justice, and a Masters in Education,
(emphasis in Political Science), at Columbus College (now Columbus
State University. He passed the Georgia bar exam several months
before his graduation from Woodrow Wilson Law School with a
Juris Doctorate.
During his career in law and law enforcement he has been a
detective with the Muscogee County Sheriff s Department, director
of a regional Police Academy, instructor in Criminal Justice at
Southern Union State College. He also established the first
bi-racial law firm in Columbus, and served 12 years as a member of
the Columbus Council. In 1982 he was selected one of the ten
outstanding young men in the nation, and in 1988 he was chosen one
of only ten elected officials in the nation--and the only one from
Georgia--to represent the United States in an exchange visit to
Australia.
He has two daughters, Kelly and Jennifer, and is a member of
Calvary Baptist Church.
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