On November 5, 2002, Saxby Chambliss was elected Georgia’s 63rd United States Senator. Chambliss is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Rules Committee and he is the Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. During the 109th Congress, Chambliss served as Chairman of that committee and, according to the Congressional Research Service, is the only senator since 1947 to have chaired a full standing Senate Committee after serving in the Senate for just two years.
In 1994, Chambliss was first elected to Congress to represent Georgia’s 8th congressional district. Chambliss is Co-Chairman of the Senate Reserve Caucus and a member of the Senate National Guard Caucus.
Chambliss earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Georgia in 1966 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1968. Chambliss and his wife, Julianne, have been married since 1966, and reside in Moultrie, Georgia. They are members of St. John's Episcopal Church and have two children and two grandchildren.
