Commissioner Denise Cleveland Leggett

Denise Cleveland Leggett, Esq., an attorney with a specialty in healthcare, serves as Counsel with The Baudino Law Group in Atlanta. In 2001, Lt. Governor Mark Taylor  appointed her to serve on the Commission on Women, where she chairs the Sub-Committee on Cardiovascular Health & Obesity, serves as Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Status of Women and as a member of the Arts, Violence and Women's History Committees.

A graduate of Oakwood College, she received her Juris Doctor degree from Boston University School of Law in 1984. In her early career, she interned with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Cleveland, Ohio, was Assistant Director of Law for the City of Cleveland, and Law Clerk for the Third District Court in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has served as legal consultant to corporations on issues relating to Title VII and other employment related matters. She served as an attorney with Hunton & Williams, with the Business Practice Group and Governmental Relations Team, and as counsel for the State of Maryland General Assembly and the Administrative Executive and Legislative Review Committee, where she was responsible for bond and capital finance legislation, working directly with Senate Finance and House Appropriations committees. She published the first manual on the history and legislative process for bond related capital finance legislation.

Ms. Leggett has served as a member of Georgia's State Ethics Commission, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Task Force
on Development of Minority Entrepreneurship, the Council for Hearing Impaired Legal Clinic, UNCF's Mayor's Masked Ball and the Breath of Life Television Ministry. Recently selected as member of the Board of Trustees for Atlanta History Center, she is immediate past President of the Board of Trustees for Literacy Action, Inc. and President of the Board of Councilors for the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, and a member of the 2003 Class of Leadership Georgia.

Ms. Leggett has been married to Dr. Christopher Leggett, an interventional cardiologist, for 21 years. They have two children, a daughter Alexandria, who is a student at Princeton University, and Christopher, age eleven.