Jim Wood
Jim Wood has a media career spanning more than 60 years of work experience in Georgia, more than 50 of which have been spent as a publisher and president in his own profitable company. His professional career began in 1948, and includes experience as a publisher of the weekly Fayette County News, founder and publisher of the Clayton News Daily, the Atlanta Downtown News, ATL (the Atlanta Airport Newspaper), which he still owns, DFW People (the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Newspaper), which he still owns and operates, as well as publisher of similar airport and aviation trade papers in Houston and Denver.
He has won state and national awards for news and editorial writing, and is a Past President of the Georgia Press Association; more importantly, he says, he has launched many outstanding journalists and practitioners into media careers. In 2002, Jim was selected by his peers to receive the Georgia Press Association Golden Medallion for 50 years in the newspaper business.
Jim Wood also offers clients a wide range of political experience. After serving in the Georgia House of Representatives for three terms between 1976 and 1982, he became the Democratic nominee for Georgia's U.S. 6th Congressional District, losing to eventual U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Jim is an active Rotarian and a past-president of the Rotary Club of Clayton County. He also serves on the Board of Trustees at Clayton College and State University.
Jim is an annual supporter of the Alabama Alumni Association, and served as a past-president of the Atlanta Chapter the year it was selected as the top out-of-state chapter by the University of Alabama National Alumni Association.
