Sherry Boston serves as the district attorney for DeKalb County, Georgia, which includes a portion of Atlanta, as well as several smaller metro-area cities.
[3] On August 2, 2023, Boston lead a bipartisan group of four district attorneys who filed a lawsuit against the State of Georgia aimed at striking down Senate Bill 92 (SB92).
[8] On December 8, 2023 the plaintiffs filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit after the Georgia Supreme Court issued an order declining to review the rules for the PAQC.
[10][11] Every February, Boston hosts the Love Run 5K, a fundraiser for the Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence in DeKalb County.
[13] Under Boston's leadership, in 2019 DeKalb County became the first district attorney's office in the state to require that all staff members undergo implicit bias training.