Gabe Okoye

Gabe Okoye is Nigerian–American civil engineer, former chair, and a current commissioner of planning in Gwinnett County.^[1][2] On November 8, 2022, he became a legislator elect at the 2022 US midterm elections representing Georgia State and he took office on January 9, 2023.^{[3][2][4][5][1]}

Gabe Okoye
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 102nd district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 9, 2023
Preceded by	Constituency established
Personal details
Citizenship	United States Nigeria

Biography

Okoye is a native of Enugwu-Agidi . He relocated to United States in 1981.^[6] He began working as a security guard. He later enrolled in college where he became a civil engineer and eventually founded a company called Essex Geoscientist. Okoye is married with four children and has been living in Atlanta since 1992^[2][6]

Political career

Okoye is a Democrat and he became the Gwinnett party chairman in 2016. In 2018, he recorded massive wins that captured 13 seats out of the 25 seats available in the county. This historic wins made the Georgia House of Representatives with Resolution 313 of 2019 declared November 6 of 2019 as Gabe Okoye Leadership Day.^[6]