James Francis Martin (born August 22, 1945) is an American politician and former member of the Georgia General Assembly.

In 1963, after graduating from Atlanta's public school system, he enrolled at the University of Georgia, where he was elected freshman class president.

degree, subsequently working as a private attorney and as assistant legislative counsel to the Georgia General Assembly.

[4][5] In September 2001, Martin relinquished his House seat and was appointed Commissioner of Human Resources by Governor Roy Barnes.

[citation needed] From 2007 to 2008, Martin was an Executive Fellow at the Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

[8] For most of the year, incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss held a comfortable lead in the polls, but the race tightened closer to the election.