Commissioner Carole Dabbs
Carole B. Dabbs was appointed to the Georgia Commission on Women in 2002 by Lt. Governor Mark Taylor. She chairs the Committee on Aging, co-chairs the Violence Committee, and is a member of the Health and International Committees. She serves on the Georgia Woman of the Year and Georgia's Legacy: Older Women Committees, and is a Regional Director of Georgia Women's Institute. Active in Georgia Osteoporosis Initiative, she has assisted in providing free bone density testing to more than 60,000 Georgians. She is a Charter Board Member of Kennesaw State University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dabbs represents Georgia as a member of the Democratic National Committee, attending all Democratic National Conventions since 1968. Other Democratic Party affiliations include the Southern Regional Caucus, the DNC Women's Caucus, Democratic Party of Georgia and Executive Committee, Cobb County Democratic Committee and Democratic Women.
She retired after forty years of public service, most recently as Executive Assistant to U.S. Senator Max Cleland. Prior to that, she was Chief of Staff to Georgia Secretary of State Max Cleland, working in administrative leadership positions for his election and re-election state and national campaigns. For twenty years, she worked for the Democratic Party of Georgia. She has held leadership positions within National, Georgia and Cobb County Associations of Democratic Women.
For outstanding achievement in public service, she received the Al Burress Hall of Fame Award which is displayed in the Al Burress Political Science Department at Kennesaw State University. Her hobbies are photography, reading, sports events and travel. Her career has led her to travel to London, China, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, The Golan Heights, West Bank, Cairo, the Virgin Islands, Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Greek Isles, Alaska, Hawaii and Mexico.
Dabbs and her husband, Ray Dabbs, live in Kennesaw. They have three children and two grandchildren. They are members of North Atlanta Unity Church.