Melvin Everson
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 Each week GOPAC will spotlight a candidate running for election. This weeks Candidate in the spotlight is Georgia State Representative Melvin Everson. Melvin Everson won the House District 106 in a special election in November of 2006. Melvin served in the military for 23 years and retired in 1999. He is a charter member of the Snellville Optimist Club, Associate Pastor of Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Lilburn, Ga., and served on the Take Pride in Snellville Committee. Everson served two terms as President of the South Gwinnett High School PTSA and two terms as Vice President. He is up for reelection in November.

Melvin was born on September 24, 1957 to the late Northern & Willa Everson of Abbeville, Ga. He attended Wilcox High School and graduated in 1975. After high school he attended Albany State University and graduated in 1983 with a BS in Criminology. Melvin married Geraldine M. Everson and they have one son, Ricardo D. Everson who attended South Gwinnett High School and was an honor graduate. Ricardo is also a graduate from UGA with a B.S. degree in Social Work.

Melvin served 23 years in the military and retired in 1999. He served 5 years on Snellville's Planning Commission before running a successful campaign to become a council member in 2000. He is a charter member of the Snellville Optimist Club, Associate Pastor of Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Lilburn, Ga., and served on the Take Pride in Snellville Committee. Everson served two terms as President of the South Gwinnett High School PTSA and two terms as Vice President. Melvin was appointed by Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Charles Bannister in October of 2005 to the Gwinnett County Human Relations Board. Prior to this appointment, Chairman Bannister appointed Melvin to the Gwinnett County Planning and Zoning Board.

In April 2006, Melvin was appointed by Gwinnett County Human Resources Director Dr. Frances Davis to the Gwinnett County School Board Advisory Council.

Melvin was a fifteen-year employee with JCPenney Catalog as a Customer Relations Supervisor until the company ceased its Atlanta operations in July 2003. During fourteen of those years, Melvin served as the United Way Advisory Member for JCPenney for Clayton, Henry and Butts counties, and just recently completed his tenure as the 2003 campaign chair of United Way in Clayton County. Melvin is currently an Associate Pastor at Salem Missionary Baptist Church where he is the Men's Ministry Leader. As a former Probation Officer with a private probation company, Melvin brings experience from the legal side that will enable him to address the legal aspect of legislation.

In Melvin's role on Snellville City Council, his peers selected him each year, for four years, to serve as Mayor Pro Tem. Melvin also had oversight responsibility for the Snellville Police Department. Melvin Everson won the House District 106 in a special election in November of 2006 after Phyllis Miller resigned the post to become a judge.
To learn more about Melvin please visit his website at http://www.electeverson.com/ or contact him at               770.621.2527       

Address:
Everson for State House
PO Box 1006
Snellville, GA 30078 
 

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