After serving the DeKalb County community for decades, Tuesday was DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond’s last day on the job.
He sat down with Channel 2′s Sophia Choi to reflect on his journey from being a poor, underprivileged kid on the outskirts of Athens.
“My dad could not read or write. We were sharecroppers. No indoor running water until I was 16. But we had love. We had hope. We had prayer,” Thurmond described. “The difference between my dad the sharecropper and Mike Thurmond, the CEO, is just education.”…