GA-06: Rich McCormick (R)
With over 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy, Dr. Rich McCormick served in combat zones in Africa, the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. As a Marine, he flew helicopters and taught at Georgia Tech and Morehouse College as the Marine Officer Instructor. In the Navy, he earned the rank of commander and served as the Department Head for the Emergency Medicine Department in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
He is a graduate of Morehouse School of Medicine where he was also student body president, and completed residency in Emergency Medicine through Emory while training at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. He also received his master’s degree from National University in California.
He and his wife, Debra, an oncologist, have seven children and live in Suwanee.
The biographical information above was sourced from the candidate’s campaign website.
