Robyn A. Crittenden is an American attorney from the

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. She was the 28th

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. She is the first African-American woman to serve as a statewide constitutional officer in Georgia.

Biography

Crittenden earned her

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from

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and her

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from the

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. Crittenden is a former general counsel for

Morehouse College , mottoeng = And there was light (literal translation of Latin itself translated from Hebrew: "And light was made") , type = Private historically black men's liberal arts college , academic_affiliations ...

, assistant vice chancellor for legal affairs for the

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, and an assistant county attorney for

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. In 2015,

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appointed Crittenden as the commissioner of the Department of Human Services. Following the resignation of

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as Secretary of State on November 8, 2018, Deal appointed Crittenden as the 28th Secretary of State to serve the remainder of his term. Following the completion of the term, she was re-appointed commissioner of the Georgia Department of Human Services. In June 2021, Governor Kemp appointed Crittenden to lead the

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, succeeding David Curry, who stepped down to run for U.S. Congress. Crittenden and her daughter live in

Tucker, Georgia Tucker is a city located in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, located near Atlanta and was originally settled in the 1820s, and later developed as a railroad community in 1892. According to the 2016 United States Census Bureau annual estimate ...

References

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