A resident of Peachtree Corners since 1998, business executive Eric Christ was first elected to the City Council in May 2016 and his current term runs until December 2025. Prior to joining the City Council, Eric served as Vice Chairman of the City’s Zoning Board of Appeals for four years.

Eric’s legislative priorities include public engagement in the redevelopment process, transparency in the council’s spending decisions, increased citizen participation in local elections, and improved public safety.

Among his achievements while on council are funding new sidewalks along Gunnin Road, Meadow Rue Lane, Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Jones Mill Road Spur, and Frank Neely Road; new dedicated or shared bicycle lanes on Triangle Parkway, Engineering Drive, Westech Drive, and Scientific Drive; budget allocations for the acquisition of public green space; requiring public hearings before the council considers a rezoning application; updating the Comprehensive Plan to more accurately reflect the character of the Peachtree Forest area; renaming Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and nagging GDOT until they updated those overhead signs; revising the Mixed Use Development zoning ordinance to set maximum percentages for the residential component of these parcels; creating a Special District for the Meadow Rue neighborhoods to fund safety cameras, streetlights, and speed humps; securing $500,000 in ARPA recovery funds for the Fowler YMCA and the Norcross High School Foundation; sponsoring the referendum to expand Sunday alcohol sales at restaurants; and the designation of Peachtree Corners as a City of Civility and as a Purple Heart City.

Eric has completed over 150 hours of municipal training classes through the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government and the Georgia Municipal Association, earned the Certificate of Excellence from the Holtz Municipal Training Institute, and graduated from the Knox Municipal Leadership Institute. He is also a graduate of Leadership Atlanta, Leadership Gwinnett, and the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Leadership Institute.

Eric’s 30-year career includes general management, marketing, and product management positions with leading information technology and healthcare companies such as Verizon, McKesson, and Harbinger. His board service includes multiple terms as a director of the Atlanta Technology Executive Roundtable, the Healthcare Administrative Technology Association, and the National Association for the Support of Long-term Care.

Eric has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, where he was a Robert Woodruff Fellow and a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma national business honor society. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a double major in marketing and international management from Georgetown University.

Born in Minnesota, Eric moved to Atlanta in 1991. He lives in Neely Farm, with his wife, Maureen McIvor, a technology company investor and a fitness instructor at the Robert D. Fowler YMCA. Their two daughters attended Gwinnett County Public Schools and graduated from Norcross High School.

Eric serves on the Norcross High School Foundation for Excellence board and co-chaired the Manning Playground fundraising campaign at the Fowler YMCA. For over 15 years, he has participated in the Goizueta Business School mentor program, coaching MBA students as they transition from the academic to the professional environment.