Senator Johnny Isakson

Senator Johnny Isakson is a businessman, public servant and family man whose common-sense approach and conservative values have made him a leader in Georgia for over 30 years.

Isakson began his business career in 1967, opening the first Cobb County office of a small, family-owned real estate business, Northside Realty. He later served as president of Northside for 20 years, presiding over the company’s growth into the largest independent residential real estate brokerage company in the Southeast and one of the largest in America.

Isakson entered Georgia Republican politics in 1974 and served 17 years in the Georgia Legislature and three years as Chairman of the Georgia Board of Education. In 1999, Isakson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms before being elected to the United States Senate in November of 2004.

In Washington, Isakson helped pass the President's 2001 tax relief package, worked to strengthen the Armed Forces, and was an original author of the No Child Left Behind Act. He has worked to enhance and maintain Georgia's roads, advocated for mass transit alternatives to reduce congestion and improve air quality, and pushed for immigration reform.

Isakson is a 1966 graduate of the University of Georgia and served in the Georgia Air National Guard from 1966 to 1972. Isakson and his wife, Dianne, have three children and eight grandchildren. They have been married 39 years and attend Mount Zion United Methodist Church, where Johnny taught sixth grade Sunday School for 30 years.