About
Mary Margaret Oliver
Georgia State Representative Mary Margaret Oliver is a DeKalb County native and practicing attorney in Decatur. Her House District, 84, currently encompasses parts of Avondale Estates, Decatur, Lithonia, and Stonecrest. It includes Agnes Scott College and Columbia Seminary.
For over twenty-five years, Mary Margaret Oliver has served multiple terms in the Georgia House and Senate, focusing on legislation protecting children and consumers and having the distinction of chairing both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
In January 2021, Rep. Oliver was appointed chair of the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Oversight Committee (MARTOC), making her the sole Democrat committee chair in the General State House during the 2021-2022 session. In 2022, she helped carry the Speaker’s bipartisan Mental Health Parity Act to unanimous passage by both chambers, a watershed victory for Georgians.
Rep. Oliver sits on the Appropriations, Judiciary, Governmental Affairs, Juvenile Justice, Public Health, and Technology and Infrastructure Innovation Committees. By appointment of the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, she serves on the Committee on Justice for Children, and by appointment of the Governor, she joined the Commission on Behavioral Health Innovation and Reform. The House Speaker appointed her to special committees on Criminal Justice Reform, Child Welfare Reform, and Access to the Civil Justice System.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University and Emory University Law School, Rep. Oliver has remained active in the life of Emory, where she has taught in the Barton Child Law and Policy Center, currently serves on the Board of Visitors, and was honored as one of Emory’s History Makers. Her legislative work has also garnered recognition by the Atlanta YWCA, Georgia Academy of Family Physicians, and Voices for Georgia’s Children, among other organizations. In October 2023 Oliver received the Georgia First Amendment Foundation’s 2023 Charles Weltner Freedom of Information Award.
Representative Oliver is a frequent guest on WABE’s Politically Georgia and a timely contributor of opinion pieces on legislative issues to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. A golfer and avid gardener with a love of Georgia’s natural beauty, Oliver serves on the board of the Altamaha Riverkeepers. She is a lifelong member of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Midtown Atlanta, where she teaches an annual Sunday School class, “Jesus on the Front Page of the New York Times."
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