This Week's Program: The Honorable Roger Bruce
This Friday, October 9, the Rotary Club of Atlanta West End is pleased to welcome the Honorable Roger Bruce , former Georgia State Representative and former club member, as our program speaker. Representative Bruce will share his insights on the upcoming November 3, 2026, midterm election and constitutional issues , drawing on his 22 years of service in the Georgia House of Representatives.
Roger Bruce
Roger Bruce was born in Harlem, New York in 1953. He attended Catholic and public schools through grade 8. He then attended St. Emma Military Academy. This school is now a part of the history stored at the Smithsonian Institute. He graduated after serving as the Battalion Executive Officer and Company Commander, demonstrating leadership skills very early in his life. He then went on to graduate from Morehouse College where he majored in Political Science. He was the first in his family to attend and finish college. As a student, not only did he succeed academically, but he also displayed great concern for his fellow students and the next generation of students. He was President of the Political Science Club and reinstituted the Frederick Douglass Tutorial Institute to help struggling high school students and to help prepare them for college. During college, he interned for former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson at the law firm of Jackson, Patterson, Parks and Franklin. He is married to Angela, an Educator, and has three children, Andrea, Brandon, and Ariel and four grandchildren.
Rep Roger Bruce represented District 61 in the Georgia House of Representatives. Georgia House of Representatives, where he served the people of his district for 22 years.
His district includes parts of South Fulton County, which includes parts of the new City of South Fulton, North Atlanta, Douglas County, and Cobb County. He served as the first African American Chairman of the Douglas County Delegation for eight years.
He was first elected in 2002, began serving in January 2003, and has been re-elected every two years since then. During his time in office, Rep. Bruce has focused on issues related to children with special needs, aging, education, working families, economic development, voting rights, and criminal justice.
Representative Bruce has served twice as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. This gave him the opportunity to vote for President Obama to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
He has been recognized for his work by many organizations, including A. Philip Randolph Elementary School, Herndon Elementary School, All Children Are Special, Another Way Out, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and the Georgia Council on Aging. The Atlanta Police Department recognized him for his efforts to protect the officers by organizing the community and business owners to raise money to purchase bulletproof vests.
His first major piece of legislation became known as the Parent Protection Act was to provide for a licensing process for developers in response to elderly constituents who were being taken advantage of by contractors. He then sponsored the Time Out for Schools Legislation to protect parents who needed time off from work to address issues at their child’s school. His Bill HB 78 was used as the basis for a portion of the Governor’s legislative package on the topic of minority equity and fairness in state spending. Rep Bruce also sponsored HB 22 which allows citizens to vote at any precinct within their county versus going to a specified location to vote.
He currently serves on the Board of Trustees at The Interdenominational Theological Center, the Board of Directors for Fulton Atlanta Community Action Authority, Inc., and All Children Are Special. He is a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 1980 and the 2006 Class of the Flemming Leadership Institute.
He is married to Angela , an Educator, and has three children , Andrea, Brandon, and Ariel and four grandchildren.
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