Minority Vice Chairman

HD 58 (D-Atlanta)

Nan Grogan Orrock, is a ten-term Georgia State Representative representing in-town Atlanta neighborhoods. District 58 is located in parts of Fulton and DeKalb counties, including Southeast Atlanta, East Atlanta, and Edgewood. She serves as the Minority Caucus Vice-Chair of the House Democratic Caucus. She also serves on the committees on Economic Development & Tourism, Ways & Means and Industrial Relations. Rep. Orrock is a founder of the Legislative Women's Caucus and her legislative expertise includes health policy, women’s issues, child/family policy, workplace issues, civil liberties, civil rights, and environmental issues. Orrock's successful legislative initiatives include passage of the Georgia Family Medical Leave Act, the Prescriptive Equity for Contraceptives Act, the Chlamydia Screening Act, Georgia Hate Crimes Act, and the Omnibus AIDS statute. She has been named Public Health Legislator of the Year and Environmental Legislator of the Year for her efforts.

In 1996 Orrock worked with a legislative team to pass landmark legislation regulating landfills and has continued to monitor landfill issues and advocate for environmentally sound policy on air and water, solid waste, and nuclear waste. In 2002, Rep. Orrock passed legislation for reform and fairness in the unemployment insurance system. Additionally, she is undertaking efforts to address chronic homelessness and the need for affordable housing. She served on the Governor’s Action Group on the Accessibility and Affordability of Health Insurance to address the needs of 1.2 million uninsured Georgians.

Orrock is a Sapelo Foundation trustee and a board member of the national Center for Policy Alternatives. She is a founding executive board member of the National Labor Caucus, and Vice-Chair of the Labor-Workforce Committee of the National Conference of State Legislators. She is a member of the Georgia Women's Forum and the National Campaign for America's Future. She also serves on the Morehouse School of Medicine Legislative Advisory Committee. Representative Orrock was selected as a 2003 Fellow of the Eleanor Roosevelt Global Leadership Initiative. Orrock is the president of Women Legislators' Lobby (WiLL), a national multi-partisan network of women legislators working to impact federal spending priorities. WiLL is a program of WAND, Women’s Action for New Directions, which works to reduce violence and militarism and increase the voices of women in the political process. Orrock received her B.A. in English from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia.

Her work experience spans the fields of philanthropy, journalism, civil rights, union and community organizing. She is the mother of two grown sons.