Sarah-Elizabeth Langford

Langford is a native of Atlanta. Her late father, Arthur Langford Jr., was a minister and a Georgia State Senator and her mother an attorney and prominent community leader.[2][3][4] Both her father and husband have held the same District 35 State Senate seat.

Langford attended Pace Academy where she attended kindergarten through 12th grade. She then graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in French and received her J.D. from Howard University School of Law.[3][5] While in law school, she worked for United States Congressman John Lewis. After graduating she worked for the D.C. Office of General Counsel for five years and later as an affordable housing developer for National Church Residences for eight years. As of 2014, Langford was the Executive Director of the Development Authority of Fulton County.[4] In February 2017, Governor Nathan Deal appointed her to the Georgia Board of Regents.[6] She is an advocate for the arts and serves on boards including the Atlanta Children's Museum and the nonprofit BIH.

Langford held the Miss District of Columbia 2002 and Miss District of Columbia USA 2005 titles and competed at Miss America 2003 and Miss USA 2005.[1][7][8] She also won $50,000 on the NBC hit show Fear Factor, a promotional appearance for Miss USA.

Langford is believed to have married Kasim Reed in 2014, while he was serving his second term as Atlanta's mayor, before their baby was born in May/June. The Mayor's office announced their marriage and the birth of their daughter.[9]

In 2016, while married to Reed and serving as first lady of Atlanta, she was cited for driving with an expired license and failing to obey a traffic signal. Six weeks later she ran a red light and crashed into another vehicle. The city paid for damage to the city vehicle she was operating although the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported she was not authorized to be driving it.[10]