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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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