Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker

Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker is the Interim City Attorney for Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining the City, she was the Administrative Partner at Johnson & Freeman, LLC. She rejoined the firm after distinguished service as the County Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia. Prior to joining Fulton County, she served as the Vice President and General Counsel for the Atlanta BeltLine Inc. for six years.

She is a former partner with the law firm of Hollowell, Foster & Gepp, PC, where she oversaw the Commercial Real Estate Group. She was a former Managing Partner of Johnson, Freeman & Perkins-Hooker. She also owned her own law firm for over 10 years.

Perkins-Hooker is an honors graduate of Georgia Tech and received her graduate JD and MBA degrees from Emory University Law and Business Schools. She was admitted to the Bar in 1984.

She has served as the Chair of the City of Atlanta’s Board of Zoning Adjustment and Chair of the Emory Business School Alumni Association. She is currently the Chair of the Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless Board and a member of the John Marshall Board of Directors.

She has also received numerous honors for her service to the legal profession and the community, including being inducted into the Gate City Bar Association’s Hall of Fame, being presented the Leah Ward Sears Service to the Profession Award by the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, being presented an Honorary degree from the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, being presented the Eleonoré Raoul Greene Trailblazer Award from Emory University Law School and being presented the George A. Pindar Award for Lifetime Service to the Real Property profession. She was also the recipient of the Randolph Thrower Lifetime Achievement Award from the State Bar of Georgia's Commitment to Equality Committee in 2022 and a recipient of the George A. Pindar Award for Lifetime service to the Real Property profession for 2020. She has also received the Phoenix Award from a previous Mayor of Atlanta.

She has also been selected as one of the 500 Most Powerful Leaders in Atlanta in the Governmental and Politics Arena by Atlanta Magazine (2021-2024) and she was honored by the Fulton County Daily Report for running one of the Top In-House Law firms in Georgia in 2019.

She is married to Douglas R. Hooker. They have two children, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.