James Woodall

Woodall is a former intelligence analyst for the United States Army. He served in the Army for eight years and left as a sergeant.^[3] He currently serves as a minister at Pleasant Grove Missionary Church in Marietta, Georgia.^[2] Woodall is also a legislative aide to Georgia state representative Miriam Paris.^[3]

Woodall became active in the NAACP in 2015 after the deaths of Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin.^[4] He graduated from the NAACP's Next-Gen leadership program. During that time, he was president of the state's youth and college program and also vice president of the Bulloch County NAACP. He was elected president of the Georgia state NAACP in October 2019, making him the youngest Georgia NAACP president in the organization's history.^[2]

Woodall ran as a Democrat for Georgia's 160th House district in the 2016 election, losing to Republican incumbent Jan Tankersley.^[5]

In the wake of the 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger created a bipartisan election task force, in October, to improve voting systems and law in the state. Woodall was named to the task force. On December 30, 2020, Woodall quit the task force calling it a "farce", that "it's all for show," and that no actions have taken place despite numerous task force meetings.^[6][7]

• Official website
• "Protest March In Atlanta To Call Out Systematic Criminal Justice Failures", an interview with Woodall on NPR
• "Officer Who Killed Rayshard Brooks Faces Felony Murder Charges — But 'We Still Have A Long Way To Go,' Georgia NAACP President Says", an interview with Woodall on Here and Now