Published 8:56 am Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Danielle Ramsey is running for office for the first time. Ramsey, a Democrat, is challenging incumbent Baldwin County Commissioner Scott Little for the District 5 seat that he has held for nearly two years. Little is a Republican. For the past 20 years, Ramsey has worked as a mental health counselor. She currently works at River Edge in Milledgeville. Her work in that field began when she lived in Chicago, which was her home for 14 years. “I really enjoy doing that kind of work,” Ramsey said in a recent interview with The Union-Recorder. While living in Chicago, Ramsey teamed up to help the late Jessie Jackson, a longtime civil rights leader, in an effort to register more Black voters as part of Jackson’s Operation PUSH. She recalled that she shook hands with Jackson twice during her high school years and vowed one day to serve as one of his many volunteers. “Helping him was really where I became very interested in politics,” Ramsey said. “It’s really what made me think seriously about running for political office one day.” Ramsey said she thought about the problems facing Baldwin County and decided the wait to seek political office was over. “And that’s when I went and qualified to run for the District 5 seat on the Baldwin County Board of Commissioners,” Ramsey said. Life has never been easy for Ramsey, she explained. “I grew up in foster care, and both of my parents grew up in Wilkes County, Georgia,” Ramsey said. “They were…
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