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Kasim Reed
Mohammed Kasim Reed (born June 10, 1969) is an American attorney and politician who is the 59th and current mayor of Atlanta, Georgia's state capital and largest city.
A Democrat, Reed was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1998 to 2002 and represented the 35th District in the Georgia State Senate from 2003 to 2009. He served as campaign manager for Shirley Franklin's successful Atlanta mayoral campaign in 2001. After Franklin was term limited from the mayor's office, Reed successfully ran for the position in 2009. Inaugurated on January 4, 2010, Reed was elected to a second term in 2013.
==Early life and education==
Reed was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but his family moved to Fulton County, Georgia, when he was an infant.〔 He was born and raised in a United Methodist household. His father had considered converting to Islam around the time the boy was born, during the early years of desegregation, and named his son Mohammed Kasim, to the consternation of his minister grandfather.〔("Mr. Reed Goes to Washington?" ) - Georgia Rising Stars, ''Super Lawyers'', October 2005〕 Reed graduated from Fulton County's Utoy Springs Elementary School and Westwood High School, now Westlake High School.〔
According to a DNA analysis, he is a descendant through African ancestral lines of the Igbo people of Nigeria.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AfricanAncestry.com Unlocks Ancestral Roots of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Marcus Garvey Using DNA and Their Living Descendents )〕
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