Washington DC/IBNS, Nov. 4 -- Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms on Tuesday scripted history by becoming the first Black woman elected governor of a US state after defeating Republican businessman Rick Jackson in Georgia in the midterm elections, media reports said.

Bottoms' victory marks the first Democratic win in Georgia's gubernatorial race since 1998.

Keisha Lance Bottoms is an American Democratic politician, attorney and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.

She served as Atlanta's mayor from 2018 to 2022 before joining former President Joe Biden's administration as a senior adviser and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Her political career has been closely associated with issues concerning civil rights, public saf...