Fayetteville Mayor Edward Johnson received the Mayor of the Year Award during the Georgia Minority Business Awards dinner held recently at the Georgia International Convention Center.

The 24th annual event, hosted by Atlanta Business Journal, honors minority businesses and entrepreneurs from around Georgia who are making an impact within their respective business communities.
Mayor Johnson has been a Fayetteville elected official since January 2012, serving first as a city councilman. He has served as Mayor since January 2016. He has lived in Fayetteville since 1994.

A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Johnson is a retired United States Navy commander and educator who now serves as full-time pastor of Flat Rock African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Fayetteville area. He and his wife, Dr. Vanessa O. Johnson, have two sons and three granddaughters.
Johnson says he initially moved to Fayetteville to put his sons into an excellent school system. Then and now, as its Mayor, Johnson is encouraged by the city’s growing sense of community as it encounters well-managed development and advancement.