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DEKALB COUNTY, GA—Today, Dec. 18, the Steering Committee for the 2025 CEO Inaugural Week announced Lorraine Cochran-Johnson will be sworn in during a weeklong celebration set Jan. 8-12. Cochran-Johnson will take the reigns as the 6th Chief Executive Officer of DeKalb County, Georgia, making history as the first African-American woman to hold the office in the state’s fourth-most populous county.
Cochran-Johnson will be sworn in on Friday, Jan. 10, 5 to 6 p.m., at Emory University, Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church, 1660 N. Decatur Road N.E., Decatur. The Honorable Judge Penny Brown-Reynolds will administer the oath of office. The Honorable Judge Mark Scott will serve as the Master of Ceremony.
The weeklong celebration includes a “Conversation on DeKalb: Past, Present, and Future,” which will be moderated by Cochran-Johnson featuring former CEOs: Liane Levetan; Vernon Jones; Burrell Ellis; and Michael Thurmond. There also will be a gala, meet-and-greet with Cochran-Johnson and the First Family, and a countywide Day of Prayer hosted by New Birth Missionary Baptist Church’s Pastor Jamal Bryant.
The momentous Inaugural Week will begin a new phase of vision and leadership poised to achieve new heights for DeKalb’s more than 763,000 residents, the Steering Committee stated. Registration for the events can be found in the links below:
