Representative Mark Hatfield

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Born July 29, 1969 in Waycross, Ware County, Georgia, Representative Mark Hatfield is married to Lee Clark Hatfield. They are the proud parents of two children, John Mark II, age 7, and Annabeth, age 4. The family attends the First United Methodist Church, Waycross.

Representative Hatfield earned the rank of Valedictorian, Class of 1987, Waycross High School, and subsequently graduated from the University of Georgia in 1990 as a First Honor Graduate with an A.B. degree in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude, with Highest Honors. He later received his Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, from the University of Georgia School Of Law in 1993.

During Hatfield's undergraduate career at UGA, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; was a member of the UGA Honors Program; served as President of the UGA Zodiac Honor Society; and was a recipient of the UGA President's Award in 1990. In law school at Georgia, Hatfield was a member of the Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court; won the 1992 Intraschool Mock Trial Competition; won the 1992 Verner F.

Chaffin Award for Excellence in Fiduciary Law; and served as a Graduate Senator to the UGA Student Government Association from 1990¬1992.

A former Georgia All-State alto saxophonist in 1987, Hatfield was also a member of the University of Georgia Redcoat Marching, Concert, and Symphonic Bands during his years at UGA.

Representative Hatfield was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1993, and he is a former Assistant District Attorney for the Western Judicial Circuit based in Athens, Georgia. A former President of the Waycross Bar Association, he is presently an attorney in the private practice of law with Hatfield & Hatfield, P.C. in Waycross.

Representative Hatfield is currently serving his first term in the Georgia General Assembly, having been elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2004. He serves as Secretary of the Judiciary (Civil) Committee in the House, and also serves on the Higher Education and Transportation Committees. Representative Hatfield was also selected by Majority Whip Barry A. Fleming to serve as a Deputy Majority Whip for the House of Representatives.

A former Chairman of the Ware County Republican Party, Hatfield has also been actively involved in his community, serving his neighbors in several different capacities. He is a former member of the Waycross Jaycees and the Board of Directors of the Southeast Georgia Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is currently a member and officer of the Waycross Elks Lodge # 369 and serves as a volunteer baseball coach at the Waycross YMCA. He is also an active member of the Williams Heights Elementary PTA.