Senator Dan Lee served three terms in the Georgia Senate, ultimately rising to become Governor Sonny Perdue’s Senior Administrative Floor Leader. As Governor Perdue’s floor leader, Dan served as his spokesperson in the Senate and helped pass Governor Perdue’s legislative agenda, which included ethics and education reform and strengthening criminal penalties for the manufacture, transfer and possession of methamphetamines.

Dan was the first Democrat to endorse republican Governor Sonny Perdue championing “Democrats for Perdue” and securing the endorsement of over 60 sheriffs statewide for Governor Perdue. Dan was the first of four senators to switch parties giving republicans control of the Georgia Senate for the first time in Georgia’s history. Most recently, Dan served as Georgia’s eighth District Chairman of the George W. Bush for President Re-election campaign in 2004.

Dan was elected to the State Senate in 1998 to represent the 29th Senatorial District. He served as Vice Chairman of the Senate Public Safety and Judiciary Committees and served on the Natural Resources and Appropriations Committees.

Dan was born in Luthersville, Georgia. He graduated from LaGrange College in 1981 and earned his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama in 1985. He is an active member of the Georgia Bar and other professional organizations. He is married to Susan Holliday, and they have one son, Daniel, Jr. They are members of the First United Methodist Church of LaGrange.