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Doraville                                                                      Liane
    ECONOMIC                                                                                     Cities of DeKalb (1938):    Chamblee                                                                                                                                                                        PUBLIC
                                                                                                          • Parts of Atlanta
   DEVELOPMENT                                                                                           • Avondale Estates                                                                                                                                                                                 ADVOCACY
                                       AR  II             Public                                             • Chamblee      Decatur Avondale Pine Lake Mountain                                              Levetan
                                                                                                                                 Clarkston
                                                                                                                                         Stone
                                                                                                             • Clarkston
                                                                                                               • Decatur
                                                                                                                                Estates
                                       PILL               Advocacy                                        •Stone Mountain  1938              Lithonia                                                         Liane Levetan has a long and rich
                                                                                                              • Doraville
                                                                                                                            Atlanta
                                                                                                              • Lithonia
                                                                                                             • Pine Lake
                                                                                                                                                                                                              history in DeKalb since moving


                    CITIES OF DEKALB COUNTY,                                                                                                                                                                  to the county in 1955.
                                                                                                 Cities of DeKalb (2019):  Dunwoody
                   80 YEARS AGO AND TODAY                                                            • Parts of Atlanta (10%)  Doraville                                                                                                                         “ It has been a pleasure and
                                                                                                         • Avondale Estates
                                                                                                                            Chamblee
                                                                                                             • Chamblee   Brookhaven                                                                         n 1975, she became the first woman elected to the   a privilege to watch DeKalb
                          eKalb County was established as Georgia’s 56th county in                           • Clarkston             Tucker                                                                  DeKalb County Board of Commissioners, which she
                                                                                                               • Decatur         Clarkston  Stone                                                         Iserved for 10 years.                                  County grow. There are still
                          December 1822. The county was created from portions of                              • Doraville          Pine Lake Mountain                                                                                                            many challenges ahead.
                                                                                                     • Dunwoody (estb. 2008)   Avondale
                                                                                                                               Estates
                  D Fayette, Gwinnett, and Henry counties. In 1938, DeKalb County                             • Lithonia   Atlanta                                                                         In 1993, Levetan became DeKalb County CEO, where      No one gets things done
                                                                                                                            Decatur
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ”
                                                                                                             • Pine Lake
                                                                                                                                                                                                           she was responsible for helping DeKalb County become
                   had nine incorporated cities within its borders. Since then, four new cities          • Stone Mountain                   Lithonia                                                                                                             by themselves.
                   have been established in DeKalb. There also are several unincorporated           • Brookhaven (estb. 2012)            Stonecrest                                                        a good resource for local businesses with innovative
                                                                                                     • Stonecrest (estb. 2017)                                                                             approaches to employee training and performance       – Liane Levetan
                   communities within DeKalb, including Ellenwood, Kirkwood, Druid Hills,              • Tucker (estb. 2016)  2019                                                                         measures. Although Levetan has won several awards
                   Briarcliff, Cedar Grove, Scottdale, South DeKalb, and several others.                                                                                                                   for successful collaboration between the public and
                                                                                                                                                                                                           private sectors, her most significant achievement, she
                                                                                                                                                                                                           said, is becoming a catalyst for reinforcing economic
                                                                                                                                                                                                           development in DeKalb County, starting with bringing
                                                                                                                                                                                                           the first ever Nordstrom in the county to Perimeter Mall.


                                                                                                                                                                                                           Now retired from elective politics, Levetan still attends
                                                                                                                                                                                                           events at the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce and
                                                                                                                                                                                                           throughout DeKalb County and is currently a citizen
                                                                                                                                                                                                           member of the Atlanta Regional Commission and
                                                                                                                                                                                                           several of its committees.

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