Family:
Elly is an attorney and has as lived in Atlanta for 27 years. Her husband is also an attorney and they have three grown children, two daughters and one son.

Education:
University of Florida, BA Economics 1972, Phi Beta Kappa
Florida State University, JD 1976, Law Review

Employment:
Elly practiced law with the law firm Parker, Hudson & Rainer in Atlanta, Georgia after she spent a year working in Washington D.C. She also worked as an attorney with the Dade County Attorney in Miami, Florida as well an Assistant Attorney General with the Florida Department of Justice. She served as a Law Clerk in the House Appropriations Committee during law school. Before law school she worked as an Administrative Review Analyst for the Department of Family Services, as well as serving as an Associate Vice President for Sun Bank. Elly also held numerous jobs during high school and college. After her three children were born, Elly left the practice of law to become a full time mother. Like many mothers in the district, Elly stayed active in the community.

Community Service (some current organizations):

• Roadsafe America, Board of Directors
• Trees Atlanta, Development Committee and Fund-raising Chairperson
• Alzheimer’s Society of Atlanta, Advisory Board
• Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, Fund-raising and Steering Committee
• Emory Urology Department, Prostate Cancer Research Fund-raising Committee
• Meals on Wheels volunteer
• Trinity Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Georgia: Elder, Mission Council member,
  Justice, Advocacy and Public Policy Committee Chairperson, Sunday
  school teacher for 10 years.

Some things you might not know about Elly:

• While with the Justice Department, one of her cases included the water rights litigation among Georgia, Florida and Alabama. This same issue is being litigated today.
• She wrote healthcare legislation that is now Florida law while representing a large municipal Hospital.
• She worked her way through college and law school when her father died at an early age.
• Her father fought with the Dutch Resistance in WWII and her mother’s family saved many Europeans and Allied soldiers by smuggling them out of Holland through the Dutch Underground.