Johns Creek Mayor Mike Bodker was elected first vice president of the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) during the associations annual meeting, held recently in Savannah. GMA is a voluntary, non-profit organization that provides legislative advocacy, educational, employee benefit and technical assistance services to its 520 member cities.

Mayor Bodker has served on the GMA board of directors for several years. He is a former chairman of GMAs Revenue and Finance Policy Committee and has been a member of GMAs Legislative Policy Council (LPC) in recent years, and is the new chairman of the LPC. He has also served as chairman of the Metro Atlanta Mayors Association. As the first vice president, Mayor Bodker is now in line to become president of the 500-plus member organization in 2015.

In addition, Johns Creek Mayor Pro-Tem Kelly Stewart was elected to the GMA board of directors as president of the third district-Metro Atlanta. Stewart was appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal in 2013 to the board of directors for the Department of Juvenile Justice. She has worked in the University System of Georgia and on Capitol Hill at the U.S. House of Representatives.