Nikema Williams

Nikema Williams

Democratic Party

Candidate, U.S. House Georgia District 5

U.S. House Georgia District 5

Tenure

2021 - Present

Term ends

2025

Years in position

3

Predecessor

Kwanza Hall

Prior offices

Georgia State Senate District 39

Successor: Sonya Halpern

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Compensation

Base salary

$174,000

Elections and appointments

Last elected

November 8, 2022

Next election

May 21, 2024

Personal

Birthplace

Columbus, Ga.

Profession

Nonprofit executive

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Nikema Williams (Democratic Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Georgia's 5th Congressional District. She assumed office on January 3, 2021. Her current term ends on January 3, 2025.

Williams (Democratic Party) is running for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Georgia's 5th Congressional District. She declared candidacy for the Democratic primary scheduled on May 21, 2024.

The Democratic Party of Georgia chose Williams to replace incumbent candidate John Lewis on the general election ballot after Lewis' death on July 17, 2020.

Williams was a superdelegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention from Georgia. Williams was one of 15 superdelegates from Georgia. Superdelegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention were not bound by the results of their state’s primary or caucus to support a specific presidential candidate. Williams supported Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Clinton formally won the Democratic nomination for president on July 26, 2016.

Biography

Nikema Williams was born in Columbus, Georgia, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Williams' career experience includes working as vice president of Public Policy of Planned Parenthood Southeast, the deputy director of civic engagement of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and the deputy executive director of Care in Action.

Committee assignments

2021-2022

Williams was assigned to the following committees:^[Source]

• Committee on Financial Services
• Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion
• Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion
• Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
• Highways and Transit
• Aviation

2019-2020

Williams was assigned to the following committees:

• Senate Economic Development and Tourism Committee
• State and Local Governmental Operations Committee
• Senate Retirement Committee
• Urban Affairs Committee
• Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Overview Committee (MARTOC)

Key votes

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Key votes: 117th Congress, 2021-2023

The 117th United States Congress began on January 3, 2021 and ended on January 3, 2023. At the start of the session, Democrats held the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives (222-213), and the U.S. Senate had a 50-50 makeup. Democrats assumed control of the Senate on January 20, 2021, when President Joe Biden (D) and Vice President Kamala Harris (D), who acted as a tie-breaking vote in the chamber, assumed office. We identified the key votes below using Congress' top-viewed bills list and through marquee coverage of certain votes on Ballotpedia.

Key votes: 117th Congress, 2021-2023
Vote	Bill and description	Status
Yea	Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act   The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684) was a federal infrastructure bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on November 15, 2021. Among other provisions, the bill provided funding for new infrastructure projects and reauthorizations, Amtrak maintenance and development, bridge repair, replacement, and rehabilitation, clean drinking water, high-speed internet, and clean energy transmission and power infrastructure upgrades. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. Click here to read more.	Passed (228-206)
Yea	American Rescue Plan Act of 2021   The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (H.R. 1319) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on March 11, 2021, to provide economic relief in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Key features of the bill included funding for a national vaccination program and response, funding to safely reopen schools, distribution of $1,400 per person in relief payments, and extended unemployment benefits. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. Click here to read more.	Passed (220-210)
Yea	Inflation Reduction Act of 2022   The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (H.R. 5376) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on August 16, 2022, to address climate change, healthcare costs, and tax enforcement. Key features of the bill included a $369 billion investment to address energy security and climate change, an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, allowing Medicare to negotiate certain drug prices, a 15% corporate minimum tax, a 1% stock buyback fee, and enhanced Internal Revenue Service (IRS) enforcement, and an estimated $300 billion deficit reduction from 2022-2031. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. Click here to read more.	Passed (220-207)
Yea	Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act   The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (H.R. 3617) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that sought to decriminalize marijuana, establish studies of legal marijuana sales, tax marijuana imports and production, and establish a process to expunge and review federal marijuana offenses. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (220-204)
Yea	For the People Act of 2021   The For the People Act of 2021 (H.R. 1) was a federal election law and government ethics bill approved by the House of Representatives. The Congressional Research Service said the bill would "expand voter registration (e.g., automatic and same-day registration) and voting access (e.g., vote-by-mail and early voting). It [would also limit] removing voters from voter rolls. ... Further, the bill [would address] campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosure of campaign-related fundraising and spending, requiring additional disclaimers regarding certain political advertising, and establishing an alternative campaign funding system for certain federal offices." The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. Click here to read more.	Passed (220-210)
Yea	Assault Weapons Ban of 2022   The Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 (H.R. 1808) was a bill passed by the House of Representatives that sought to criminalize the knowing import, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding devices (LCAFD). The bill made exemptions for grandfathered SAWs and LCAFDs. It required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (217-213)
Nay	National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022   The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (S. 1605) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on December 27, 2021, authorizing Department of Defense acitivities and programs for fiscal year 2022. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (363-70)
Nay	James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023   The James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (H.R. 7776) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on December 23, 2022, authorizing Department of Defense activities and programs for fiscal year 2023. The bill required a 2/3 majority in the House to suspend rules and pass the bill as amended.	Passed (350-80)
Yea	American Dream and Promise Act of 2021   The American Dream and Promise Act of 2021 (H.R. 6) was an immigration bill approved by the House of Representatives that proposed a path to permanent residence status for unauthorized immigrants eligible for Temporary Protected Status or Deferred Enforced Departure, among other immigration-related proposals. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (228-197)
Yea	Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022   The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 (S. 3373) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on August 10, 2022, that sought to address healthcare access, the presumption of service-connection, and research, resources, and other matters related to veterans who were exposed to toxic substances during military service. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (342-88)
Yea	Chips and Science Act   The Chips and Science Act (H.R. 4346) was a bill approved by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on August 9, 2022, which sought to fund domestic production of semiconductors and authorized various federal science agency programs and activities. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (243-187)
Yea	Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021   The Women's Health Protection Act of 2021 (H.R. 3755) was a bill passed by the House of Representatives. The bill proposed prohibiting governmental restrictions on the provision of and access to abortion services and prohibiting governments from issuing some other abortion-related restrictions. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (218-211)
Yea	SAFE Banking Act of 2021   The SAFE Banking Act of 2021 (H.R. 1996) was a bill passed by the House of Representatives that proposed prohibiting federal regulators from penalizing banks for providing services to legitimate cannabis-related businesses and defining proceeds from such transactions as not being proceeds from unlawful activity, among other related proposals. Since the House moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill in an expedited process, it required a two-thirds majority vote in the House.	Passed (321-101)
Yea	Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022   The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (H.R. 2471) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on March 15, 2022, providing for the funding of federal agencies for the remainder of 2022, providing funding for activities related to Ukraine, and modifying or establishing various programs. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (260-171)
Yea	Equality Act   The Equality Act (H.R. 5) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that proposed prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system, among other related proposals. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (224-206)
Yea	Respect for Marriage Act   The Respect for Marriage Act (H.R. 8404) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on December 13, 2022. The bill codified the recognition of marriages between individuals of the same sex and of different races, ethnicities, or national origins, and provided that the law would not impact religious liberty or conscience protections, or provide grounds to compel nonprofit religious organizations to recognize same-sex marriages. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. Click here to read more.	Passed (258-169)
Yea	Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023   The Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 (H.R. 6833) was a bill approved by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on September 30, 2022. It provided for some fiscal year 2023 appropriations, supplemental funds for Ukraine, and extended several other programs and authorities. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (230-201)
Yea	Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act   The Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act (H.R. 7688) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that sought to prohibit individuals from selling consumer fuels at excessive prices during a proclaimed energy emergency. It would have also required the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether the price of gasoline was being manipulated. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (217-207)
Yea	Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021   The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021 (H.R. 8) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that sought to prohibit the transfer of firearms between private parties unless a licensed firearm vendor conducted a background check on the recipient. The bill also provided for certain exceptions to this requirement. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.	Passed (227-203)
Yea	Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act   The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act was a federal elections bill approved by the House of Representatives and voted down by the Senate in a failed cloture vote that sought to, among other provisions, make Election Day a public holiday, allow for same-day voter registration, establish minimum early voting periods, and allow absentee voting for any reason, restrict the removal of local election administrators in federal elections, regulate congressional redistricting, expand campaign finance disclosure rules for some organizations, and amend the Voting Rights Act to require some states to obtain clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice before implementing new election laws. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. Click here to read more.	Passed (220-203)
Yea	Bipartisan Safer Communities Act   The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (S. 2938) was a firearm regulation and mental health bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on June 25, 2022. Provisions of the bill included expanding background checks for individuals under the age of 21, providing funding for mental health services, preventing individuals who had been convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor or felony in dating relationships from purchasing firearms for five years, providing funding for state grants to implement crisis intervention order programs, and providing funding for community-based violence prevention initiatives. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. Click here to read more.	Passed (234-193)
Yea	Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.   This was a resolution before the 117th Congress setting forth an article of impeachment saying that Donald Trump (R) incited an insurrection against the government of the United States on January 6, 2021. The House of Representatives approved the article of impeachment, and the Senate adjudged that Trump was not guilty of the charges. The article of impeachment required a simple majority vote in the House. Click here to read more.	Passed (232-197)
Yea	Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022   The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act was a bill passed by the 117th Congress in the form of an amendment to a year-end omnibus funding bill that was signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on December 23, 2022. The bill changed the procedure for counting electoral votes outlined in the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Elements of the bill included specifying that the vice president's role at the joint session of congress to count electoral votes is ministerial, raising the objection threshold at the joint session of congress to count electoral votes to one-fifth of the members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, identifying governors as the single official responsible for submitting the certificate of ascertainment identifying that state’s electors, and providing for expedited judicial review of certain claims about states' certificates identifying their electors. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. Click here to read more.	Passed (225-201)

Elections

2024

See also: Georgia's 5th Congressional District election, 2024

General election

The primary will occur on May 21, 2024. The general election will occur on November 5, 2024. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5

Incumbent Nikema Williams is running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5 on May 21, 2024.

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2022

See also: Georgia's 5th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Georgia District 5

Incumbent Nikema Williams defeated Christian Zimm in the general election for U.S. House Georgia District 5 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nikema Williams (D)	82.5	243,687
		Christian Zimm (R)	17.5	51,769

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 295,456
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5

Incumbent Nikema Williams defeated Valencia Stovall and Charlotte Macbagito in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5 on May 24, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nikema Williams	86.3	78,440
		Valencia Stovall	9.6	8,701
		Charlotte Macbagito	4.2	3,791

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 90,932
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Ian Medina (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5

Christian Zimm advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5 on May 24, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Christian Zimm	100.0	21,540

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2020

Congressional election

See also: Georgia's 5th Congressional District election, 2020

Georgia's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 9 Democratic primary)

Georgia's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 9 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Georgia District 5

Nikema Williams defeated Angela Stanton King in the general election for U.S. House Georgia District 5 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nikema Williams (D)	85.1	301,857
		Angela Stanton King (R)	14.9	52,646

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• John Lewis (D)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5

Incumbent John Lewis defeated Barrington Martin II in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5 on June 9, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		John Lewis	87.6	142,541
		Barrington Martin II	12.4	20,096

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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5

Angela Stanton King advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 5 on June 9, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Angela Stanton King	100.0	8,566

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State legislative election

See also: Georgia State Senate elections, 2020

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Nikema Williams (D)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Georgia State Senate District 39

Incumbent Nikema Williams defeated Linda Pritchett in the Democratic primary for Georgia State Senate District 39 on June 9, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nikema Williams	76.5	28,246
		Linda Pritchett	23.5	8,662

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2018

See also: Georgia State Senate elections, 2018

General election

General election for Georgia State Senate District 39

Incumbent Nikema Williams won election in the general election for Georgia State Senate District 39 on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nikema Williams (D)	100.0	67,293

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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Georgia State Senate District 39

Incumbent Nikema Williams advanced from the Democratic primary for Georgia State Senate District 39 on May 22, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nikema Williams	100.0	16,784

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2017

See also: Georgia state legislative special elections, 2017

A special election for the position of Georgia State Senate District 39 was held on November 7, 2017. Because no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote, a special runoff election between the top-two candidates was held on December 5, 2017. It featured Democrats Nikema Williams and Linda Pritchett. Nikema Williams (D) won the runoff election with 51 percent of the vote.

The candidate filing deadline was September 15. The candidates who successfully qualified to run were Republican Nick Carlson and Democrats Elijah Tutt, Linda Pritchett, Marckeith DeJesus, and Nikema Williams.

The seat became vacant following Vincent Fort's (D) resignation in August 2017 to run for mayor of Atlanta.

Georgia State Senate, District 39, Runoff Election, 2017
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Nikema Williams	51.1%	11,522
	Democratic	Linda Pritchett	48.9%	11,047
Total Votes				22,569
Source: Georgia Secretary of State

Georgia State Senate, District 39, Special Election, 2017
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Nikema Williams (advanced to runoff)	34.8%	9,208
	Democratic	Linda Pritchett (advanced to runoff)	31.5%	8,337
	Republican	Nick Carlson	14.5%	3,840
	Democratic	Marckeith DeJesus	10.9%	2,883
	Democratic	Elijah Tutt	8.2%	2,178
Total Votes				26,446
Source: Georgia Secretary of State

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2024

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2022

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2020

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Notable endorsements

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Notable endorsements by Nikema Williams

Endorsee	Election	Stage	Outcome
Barbara Lee  source  (D)	U.S. Senate California (2024)	Primary	–
Mandela Barnes  source  (D)	U.S. Senate Wisconsin (2022)	Primary	Lost General
Shontel Brown  source  (D)	U.S. House Ohio District 11 (2022)	Primary	Won General
Hillary Clinton  source  (D)	President of the United States (2016)	Primary	Lost General

Noteworthy events

Tested positive for coronavirus on March 23, 2020

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On March 23, 2020, Williams announced that she had tested positive for coronavirus.

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Arrest at state capitol (2018)

See also: Georgia gubernatorial election, 2018

On November 13, 2018, Capitol police arrested Williams and 14 other demonstrators during a protest at the Capitol. Williams was charged with misdemeanor obstruction of justice.

The protest was organized by Black Lives Matter to insist on the counting of all absentee and provisional ballots in the 2018 state gubernatorial election. Demonstrators were participating in chants in the capitol rotunda. Authorities said the protest was disbanded after several warnings that chanting and yelling was prohibited while lawmakers were in session.

Williams said she was not yelling or chanting: "I stood peacefully next to my constituents because they wanted their voices to be heard, and now I’m being arrested."

Scorecards

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2019

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2018

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Preceded by Kwanza Hall (D)	U.S. House Georgia District 5 2021-Present	Succeeded by -
Preceded by -	Georgia State Senate District 39 2017-2021	Succeeded by Sonya Halpern (D)

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Georgia's current delegation to the United States Congress

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Jon Ossoff (D)

Raphael Warnock (D)

Representatives

District 1

Earl Carter (R)

District 2

Sanford Bishop (D)

District 3

Drew Ferguson (R)

District 4

Hank Johnson (D)

District 5

Nikema Williams (D)

District 6

Rich McCormick (R)

District 7

Lucy McBath (D)

District 8

Austin Scott (R)

District 9

Andrew Clyde (R)

District 10

Mike Collins (R)

District 11

Barry Loudermilk (R)

District 12

Rick Allen (R)

District 13

David Scott (D)

District 14

Marjorie Greene (R)

Republican Party (9)

Democratic Party (7)