Carolyn Jordan Bourdeaux (born June 3, 1970)[1][2][3] is an American politician and educator who served as the U.S. representative from Georgia's 7th congressional district from 2021 to 2023.

[4] A member of the Democratic Party, she was a professor at the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University from 2003 to 2021.

On May 24, 2022, Bordeaux lost a redistricting race to fellow incumbent Lucy McBath in Georgia's 7th congressional district.

After her time there, she returned to the Andrew Young School and founded the Center for State and Local Finance.

[20] The race was considered a sleeper, but it received more attention later in the campaign as Bourdeaux continued to outraise Woodall and as Democrats picked up momentum nationwide.

[23] Just a few hours after it was filed on November 15, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May denied an emergency motion to force Gwinnett County to count previously rejected absentee ballots in the race.

[33] The Republican-controlled Georgia General Assembly significantly redrew the districts in the Atlanta suburbs after the 2020 Census.

She is also the first white Democrat to represent a district based in the Atlanta suburbs since Buddy Darden left office in 1995.

[36] As of August 2021, Bourdeaux had voted in line with President Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time.

[13] Her sister Margaret Bourdeaux[42] is a researcher at Harvard University[43] and is married to astronomer David Charbonneau.