Commission Chairwoman | Cobb County Georgia

About Chairwoman Lisa Cupid

Lisa Cupid is the Chairwoman of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners. She has served on the Cobb Board of Commissioners since 2013 and in 2020 was elected as Cobb’s first black and first female Chair. Cupid helps set policy for Georgia’s 3rd most populous county boasting a highly intelligent and diverse population of 800,000 residents, multiple Fortune 500 companies, strong K-12 schools, top higher educational institutions, natural and historic amenities, attractive communities and robust tourist attractions. Under her leadership, Cobb maintained its triple AAA distinction for financial management for 27 years, expanded services and response times for businesses, and improved funding and services for its more vulnerable citizens.

Cupid is a champion for the fair and equitable treatment of all of Cobb’s 800,000 citizens irrespective of geographic, demographic or socioeconomic standing. She is strongly committed to ensuring that ALL are included in Cobb's success. She is committed to being ALL-IN, where the success of Cobb reaches all areas and all people of the county by ensuring the county leads with integrity, makes intelligent decisions, is innovative, inclusive, and invests in its citizens, infrastructure and future.

Chairwoman Cupid is a woman of strong faith and a devoted mom whose steps are ordered to serve. She is an attorney and former mediator, policy analyst and manufacturing process engineer. She has received countless awards for her courage and service. She has been recognized for successive years as one of Georgia Trend's Top 100 Most Influential Georgians, Engineering Georgia’s Top 100 Influential Women and one of the Atlanta Business League’s Women of Influence. She has received Georgia Public Health Association’s Elected Official of the Year Award, Cobb Executive Women’s Women of Distinction’s Glass Ceiling Award, Atlanta Business League’s Catalyst Award, the National Association of Minority Contractors Advocacy Award, Common Cause’s Democracy Award, amongst several other notable distinctions. Cupid is a Vice Chair of the National Association of County Officials Community and Economic Development Committee and an invitee of its exclusive County Executive Roundtable with Harvard University. She serves on several boards not limited to the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Cobb Marietta Water Authority, the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum Authority, the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia, and the Georgia First Amendment Foundation.

Chairwoman Cupid resides in Smyrna with her two children and husband, who is also an attorney and former electrical engineer. Both are graduates of Georgia Tech and Georgia State Law. Cupid and her husband are of Guyanese and Trinidadian heritage, respectively, which Cupid credits for her hard work ethic, humility and humor. When not serving, you may find Chairwoman Cupid reading, running, or rooting for her kids on the side of a court or field.

Some Accomplishments Include:

Funding a partnership with MUST Ministries to provide a warming and cooling shelter for citizens during extreme weather.
Improving minimum wages of employees from less than $10 an hour to $17 an hour.
Expanding transit service to include on-demand transit and the launch of a new transit route.
Improving citizen education and engagement through creation of the Cobb 101 Citizens Government Academy and the Cobb County Youth Commission.
Advocating for enhanced public safety measures, including using license plate readers, additional body cameras, and implementing a public safety nuisance abatement program.
Spearheading the annual Cobb County International Festival.
Driving the build of a new public health center, recreation center and community center in underserved areas.
Advocating successfully for the expansion of the Top-End I-285 Project that will add express lanes and bus rapid transit to reduce congestion and enhance commuter needs.
Spearheading grants of up to $25,000 for childcare centers to support working families.
Establishing mental health partnership meetings which sparked the creation of an online portal of support services.
Launched the Keep Cobb Beautiful Sustainability Forum.
Reduced business permitting times from 6 weeks to 10 days.
Updating our county code with the Unified Development Code which will simplify coordination of zoning with development standards
Launching a Disparity Study to improve business opportunities with minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses.
Decentralizing workforce development sites to improve accessibility of service
Funding Discovery Park and the Chattahoochee River Trailhead in Mableton which is the launch site of the regional Chattahoochee RiverLands project