Nikema Williams

Democrat · GA-5 · U.S. House

Bio

Nikema Natassha Williams is an American politician serving as the representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district. The district includes almost three-quarters of Atlanta. She was a member of the Georgia State Senate for the 39th district from 2017 to 2021, and served as Chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia from 2019 to 2025. Williams served as one of 16 electors for Georgia in the Electoral College following the 2020 United States presidential election.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 253 of 437 by time served
Age: 48

District offices

Atlanta, GA · 404-659-0116

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2021

−$220k

2022

$184k

2023

$249k

2024

−$386k

2025

−$435k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $55k – $175k
Liabilities: $350k – $750k
Net worth: −$695k – −$175k
Since 2021: −$215k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 6 assets reported

American Funds - America Votes 401(k) Plan ⇒ American Funds 2045 Target Date Retirement Fd$50k – $100k

General Assembly of Georgia - Legislative Retirement System$1k – $15k

State Farm Life Insurance$1k – $15k

Peach State Reserve ⇒ Lifecycle 2040 Fund$1k – $15k

TransAmerica Life Insurance Annuities ⇒ National Domestic Workers Alliance 401(k) Plan ⇒ F$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.53

Healthcare

D+0.88

Immigration & Border

D+0.88

Guns

D+0.85

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.84

Crime & Policing

D+0.68

Defense & Veterans

D+0.28

Economy & Labor

D+0.53

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.07

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.91

Education

D+0.96

Government & Democracy

D+0.84

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Nikema Williams's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

92%Closest

Green Party

89%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

87%

Communist Party USA

87%

Libertarian Party

51%

Republican Party

30%

On the political map

Nikema Williams (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Williamssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Housing and Insurance Oversight and Investigations

Most and least aligned members

Treating Williams's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.