Representative Kathy Ashe
HD 56 (D - Atlanta)
Kathy Blee Ashe is an active community leader, a former educator, a mother, and a volunteer. In June of 1991, she was first elected to the Georgia General Assembly House of Representatives. Kathy is currently the Representative for House District 56 …the heart of Atlanta.
As a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Kathy serves on the Education, Children and Youth, Higher Education and the Interstate Cooperation committees. She is active in the Women’s Caucus and is the Secretary of the 2007-2008 Georgia House Democratic Caucus.
Representative Ashe received her elementary and high school education in the public schools of Tallahassee, Florida. In 1968, she graduated from Agnes Scott College. She then earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Emory University and did further graduate work at Georgia State University. She taught in the Marietta and Cobb County public schools from 1969 to 1977.
Kathy currently serves on the Boards of Agnes Scott College, the Central Presbyterian Church Outreach & Advocacy Center, Georgia Appleseed, Sisters By Choice, Georgia State University College of Law Board of Visitors, and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. She is a member of the Education Commission of the States, Weed & Seed, and the Pittsburgh Blueprint steering committees. Kathy serves on the State Bar of Georgia Disciplinary Rules & Procedures Committee and Professionalism Committee and the Supreme Court Commission on Family, children and Marriage. She is an active member of Central Presbyterian Church, where she serves as an Elder.
She is a member of Leadership Atlanta (1988), the Regional Leadership Institute (1994) and the Atlanta Urban League. Kathy has served in leadership roles in numerous community organizations, including the League of Women Voters, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the United Way of Atlanta, the Atlanta Women’s Foundation, the Junior League of Atlanta and Vote Choice.
Kathy has been married to Lawrence Ashe, an attorney, since 1972. The Ashes have two grown children. Robbie is student at the Georgia State School of Law and married to Blake Eno. Sally teaches elementary school in the Washington, DC area, and is married to Scott Wood.
82 Westminster Drive NE • Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3329
Phone: 404-892-6406 • Fax: 404-875-0548
Email: kathyashe56@mindspring.com
Website: www.kathyashe.com