Keisha Lance Bottoms set to be sworn in as Mayor of Atlanta today

Keisha Lance Bottoms is set to be sworn in today as the 60th mayor of Atlanta.

Bottoms won a special run-off election in December over Mary Norwood by 821 votes.
Norwood requested the recount, citing discrepancies that her team found in absentee ballots and addresses.

Bottoms has been working to put together a transition team. She says her job is easier because she’s spent more than 8 years working in City Hall on a regular basis. Among her priorities for the city are building up the police force.

“We know that we are around 1,800 officers and we really need to get to 2,500 at some point ,” said Lance Bottoms in early December. “I have been speaking with the police foundation about as it relates to how we police in our communities. Personnel is a part of it but technology is a huge part of it as well.”

Bottoms began the day speaking at the Inaugural Interfaith Worship Service at Impact Church on Sylvan Road in Atlanta at 8:00 am EST.
She will then take the oath of office during a ceremony at 1:00 pm EST at the Martin Luther King Jr., International Chapel at Morehouse College on Westview Drive in Atlanta.

Lance Bottoms replaces Kasim Reed who has been mayor of Atlanta since 2010.