Michael Caldwell

In January 2019 Caldwell announced that he would be seeking election to the State Senate in Georgia's 21st district in the 2020 election cycle.

Caldwell was a member of the founding team and partial owner at Python Safety, Inc. which specialized in "Fall Protection for Tools" and was acquired by 3M in 2015. He authored the most widely adopted dropped object prevention procedure in the world and has spent years traveling the globe speaking on this topic. Now a Managing Partner and owner at Blackairplane, he and his team build enterprise solutions in digital applications and websites.

In September 2011, Caldwell announced his candidacy for the 20th District of the Georgia State House of Representatives in the 2012 election cycle. Caldwell ran on the platform of accountable, honest, and transparent government. In the primary elections that followed in July, 2012, Caldwell defeated Byrd by winning 53.36% of the total vote to secure the Republican nomination. Caldwell went on to defeat the Democratic nominee in the general election in November, 2012 winning 77.11% of the total vote. He has since won re-election in 2014 and 2016 without opposition in the primary or general elections.

Caldwell graduated from Etowah High School in Woodstock, Georgia in 2007. He then earned his Business Finance degree from Kennesaw State University in 2010 in less than two years and eight months.

Michael Ryan Caldwell (born August 26, 1989) is a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives for the 20th district. He was first elected to the General Assembly in November, 2012 and was raised in Cherokee County, Georgia.