Samuel Bacote

Chairman/CEO of the Sadie G. Mays Rehabilitation Center
Member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity’s Grand Board of Directors as the Fraternity’s 13th Grand Grammateus

Samuel Bacote III served as a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity's Grand Board of Directors as the Fraternity’s 13th Grand Grammateus. Prior to 2022, he served as the Chief Administrative Officer for a decade. He received the Fraternity’s Highest Award of Distinction for his work to advance the Fraternity’s mission of service, utilizing technology to modernize business operations and helping invigorate membership to record participation and activity levels. Bacote currently leads strategic planning efforts as Chairman/CEO of the Sadie G. Mays Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta for its facility expansion, and he also served as Board Chairman of Project Community Connections Inc., a non-profit resource center for the homeless in Atlanta. Bacote has been a political appointee for five (5) different Mayors including serving as Chairman/CEO of the Fulton Atlanta Land Bank Authority. As a Chairman Appointee for over 15 years, he was also Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Development Authority of Fulton County, Georgia. Bacote served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1990s and, under the Clinton Administration, he was named one of twelve Most Notable Returned Peace Corps Volunteers among business professionals in the nation. During the George W. Bush Administration, he received the prestigious Franklin H. Williams Award, which recognizes outstanding community service of people of color who served as Peace Corps volunteers. Bacote is a 23-year member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. and he lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where as a community activist he has run for the GA State Senate and Atlanta City Council. He is married to Lisa Bacote, and they have two children, Jonathan Samuel, and Hannah Joycelyn.

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