Fatima El-Amin Ziyad is a native Atlantan and a 2000 graduate of the Emory University School of Law. Immediately following graduation, Mrs. Ziyad joined the Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office where she served as an Assistant District Attorney in Dekalb’s Superior and Juvenile Courts for three and a half years. After giving birth to her son in January, 2004, Mrs. Ziyad left the public law sector and currently practices real estate law with a small firm in East Point, Georgia. Mrs. Ziyad is a devout Muslim and a member of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam.