Career
Cowsert was elected to the Georgia State Senate in 2006. His Senate peers elected him Majority Leader in 2014. He represents the citizens of Clarke, Oconee and Walton counties.
He serves on the Senate Appropriations, Finance, Health and Human Services, Judiciary, Reapportionment and Redistricting, Regulated Industries and Utilities, and Rules committees.
Born September 1, 1958, in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised in Macon, Georgia, Senator. Cowsert graduated from Macon Central High School, earned a Bachelor of Surgery in business administration from Presbyterian College, and a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law.
Senator. Cowsert is a founding partner of the Athens’ based law firm Cowsert & Avery.
