Colleagues of state Rep. Mandi Ballinger say they’ll remember her as a woman with a heart for Georgia’s children, a mind for parsing intricate laws and the guts to stand up for what she believed in.
Ballinger, a Canton Republican, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, according to an announcement from House Speaker Jon Burns.
Before she was elected to the state House in 2012, Ballinger started her career working in a domestic violence shelter and went on to work for a district attorney’s office as a victim advocate.
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