Michelle Nunn
Michelle Nunn (born in 1966 in Perry, Georgia) is an American NGO manager and politician of the Democrats. She announced on July 22, 2013, to apply for the succession of Saxby Chambliss in the Senate of the United States in the election of November 2014.
Michelle Nunn comes from a politically active family; her father Sam Nunn was 24 years of centrist U.S. Senator for the state of Georgia for the Democrats and was most recently in 2008 as a potential U.S. vice presidential candidate in an interview, her mother Colleen Ann O'Brien worked for U.S. federal agencies and secret services. Michelle Nunn graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor degree in history and religious studies and studying in Oxford and India. Your master's degree in public administration, she received at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University).
Along with eleven other activists founded Michelle Nunn after her studies in 1989, the initiative HandsOn Atlanta, initiated volunteer volunteerism and coordinated and quickly grew. 2007 united the U.S. now -scale organization with the 1990 on the initiative of U.S. President George HW Bush established voluntary initiative Points of Light under this name; Michelle Nunn took over the management of the world's largest organization of voluntary work and she has held until today. Among several awards, it was six times (most recently in 2012) was added to a row in the Power & Influence Top 50 of the journal Nonprofit Times. Before the U.S. Senate election in 2004 in Georgia, she was already in a candidate interview, but declined for family reasons.
On July 22, 2013 Michelle Nunn announced that they as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in the intra-party code ( Primary) of the Democrats in Georgia to apply to conquer the previously held by Republican Saxby Chambliss seat in the election of November 2014. The departure of the incumbent opened one of the few ways to win a seat in the U.S. Senate despite Republican dominance in Georgia for the Democrats in a generally difficult environment for them in 2014. On the Republican side, three members of the U.S. House of Representatives and a former Secretary of State of Georgia have already declared their candidacy, including two regarded as very conservative men who could in the case of nomination by the Republicans increase the chances Nunn. As advantages of their candidature their family origins are (thanks to the long-standing bipartisan estimated her father's work in the U.S. Senate and its connections to potential donors ) and their distance to the party and politics of the day ( so far without political office, and with good connections to the Bush family ), disadvantage as their inexperience in the political arena. As subjects has Michelle Nunn - as in Republican environment is common for Democrats - highlighted economic development and fiscal discipline. Her candidacy is seen as a discharge of a trend that is strengthening in form of U.S. policy family dynasties.
Michelle Nunn lives with her husband Ron Martin and two common children in Atlanta.