Julia Bernath represents Sandy Springs and portions of Alpharetta and Roswell.

School board president from 2007 to 2009, and vice president from 2009 to 2010, Bernath also has served on the Fulton School Schools Employees’ Pension Board as chair, vice chair and as a member. In addition, she has represented the school board on the Fulton Education Foundation’s board of directors.

At the state level, Bernath is an active member of the Georgia School Boards Association, and is a past president of the organization and graduate of Leadership GSBA. She also is a member of the Federal Relations Network and Government Operations committees, and has served as Fulton County legislative liaison.

Bernath currently serves as vice chair of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and has served on the Tough Choices, Tough Times Task Force. She also has served on the Georgia Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development's board of directors and on the Teacher Quality Assessment Council, the Governor’s Education Review Study and the 65% Implementation committees.  

She has received the Jewish Federation of Atlanta’s Women of Achievement Award, the PTA Lifetime Member Award and selected for the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education’s Advisory Committee. Bernath also is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta, Regional Leadership Institute, Leadership Sandy Springs and serves on several community boards, including the Georgia Music Educators' board and the Sandy Springs Education Task Force, of which she is currently its vice chair.

Bernath graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia with a bachelor's degree in journalism. She resides in Sandy Springs and is married with three children and one grandchild.

Board member since 2000. Current term expires December 31, 2014.


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