Jason Getz/jgetz@ajc.com
Burrell Ellis is sworn in as DeKalb County CEO by Justice Carol W. Hunstein as his wife Philippa Ellis stands by his side at Saint Philip AME Church.
Burrell Ellis, DeKalb County’s new chief executive officer, took the oath of office Monday in an unusual joint ceremony for all recently elected and re-elected county officials.
Georgia Supreme Court Justice Carol Hunstein administered the oath to all 41 officials as hundreds watched from the pews at St. Philip A.M.E. Church just south of Decatur.
Ellis took the oath last and was the only official to speak.
“We do not own the offices we hold,” Ellis said. “Instead, we are entrusted with them for what is always revealed to be a brief amount of time.”
The swearing-in was to be followed by a 5:30 p.m. inaugural reception for Ellis in the Grand Ballroom of the Holiday Inn in downtown Decatur at 130 Clairemont Ave., just north of the court square. The reception originally was planned at the Fernbank Museum, but the venue was changed.
—Ty Tagami
AJC
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