Robert A. "Bob" Holmes is Director of the Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Clark Atlanta University. Holmes graduated from the Shepherd College and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University at the age of 25. In 2004, Holmes was re-elected to his sixteenth term as a State Representative in the Georgia General Assembly, where he is a committee member of Appropriations and Rules and serves as Chairman of Education. Bob was the first African-American in the history of the General Assembly to serve on the Budget Subcommittee. Clark Atlanta University is a private, undergraduate and graduate institution educational institution in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans or blacks, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West Africa. ...

Part of Interstate 285 was named in his honor, from Interstate 85 in South Fulton County to Interstate 20. Interstate 285 (Georgia State Route 407), usually known as the Perimeter, is a beltway interstate highway encircling Atlanta, Georgia for 64 miles (103 km). ... Interstate 85 is an interstate highway in the southeastern United States. ... Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. ... I-20 is also a form used by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. ...