Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is leaving her role at the White House in the Office of Public Engagement. It's a position that she has held since last summer.
In making the announcement Monday on social media Lance Bottoms said "Term ended in January 2022. I didn't take a break, planning to work hard for 6 months and relax after the summer. The White House called again in June and I said, 'I’ll stay just thru midterms in November.' Months later this extraordinary season soon ends."
Lance Bottoms accompanied the President during his recent trip to Atlanta. It was on January 15, Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, that Biden became the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon at the slain Civil Rights leader's former Atlanta church, Ebenezer.
Bottoms will be replaced at the White House by former Columbia, S.C. Mayor Stephen Benjamin.