(l to r) Governor Nathan Deal, J. Veronica Biggins, Sandra Dunagan Deal
The Foundation of Wesley Woods announced today that Governor Nathan Deal, the late First Lady Sandra Deal, and J. Veronica Biggins will be the 2023 honorees of the Heroes, Saints & Legends Award. Wesley Woods will present the awards, including the posthumous tribute to Sandra Deal, at their Heroes, Saints & Legends Gala on September 21, 2023. The long-standing event honors notable individuals who have transformed Atlanta’s community through a lifetime of achievement and commitment to leadership, service, and philanthropy.
The 2023 honorees are:
• Gov. Nathan Deal served as the 82nd governor of Georgia from 2011 – 2019. During his tenure as Governor, Deal led Georgia to become the No. 1 state in the nation for business for five years in a row and helped create more than 675,000 private sector jobs. He vastly implemented investments in Georgia’s education and transportation systems and championed bipartisan criminal justice reform. His public service to the State spans four decades as a prosecutor, judge, state senator, U.S. Congressman, and Governor.
• The late Sandra Dunagan Deal served as first lady of Georgia from 2011 to 2019. As an education advocate and former public-school teacher, she championed reading and literacy across the State, appearing at over 800 schools and reading to students in all of Georgia’s 159 counties. She co-chaired Georgia’s Literacy Commission, chaired the Georgia Children’s Cabinet and Georgia Older Adults Cabinet, and partnered with the Get Georgia Reading Campaign and Read Across Georgia Month.
• J. Veronica Biggins served as Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of Presidential Personnel under William Jefferson Clinton. She has a vast four-decade span of corporate and civic board experience throughout Atlanta, including current board chair of Savannah College of Art and Design and board member of the Woodruff…
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