Category: GRA Leadership
Brant Frost V, 1st Vice President

Brant Frost V, 1st Vice President

Brant is the Chairman of the Coweta County Republican Party (CCRP) serving since March 2013. He previously served as 1st Vice Chairman of the CCRP from 2011 to 2013 and served as a delegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention.

Brant was born and raised in Georgia and has lived in Coweta County since childhood. Brant or “Five” (as his friends call him) has served as a volunteer in the campaigns of Gary Bauer, Saxby Chambliss, and Sonny Perdue. He also served as county campaign manager for Jeff Chapman and Max Wood in 2010.

In 2010, Brant was appointed to serve as Vice Chairman of the Newnan Urban Redevelopment Agency. In 2013, he was appointed Chairman of the agency.

In 2011, Brant was elected as 1st Vice Chair of the Coweta County Republican Party (CCRP). In late 2011, Brant worked closely with Mike Crane in Crane’s successful bid to win a special election to the state senate. Brant would go on to serve as a legislative aide to Senator Crane in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 sessions of the Georgia General Assembly. In April 2012, Brant was elected to represent the Third Congressional District of Georgia to the Republican National Convention in Tampa serving as the youngest delegate from Georgia.

Brant was elected as Chairman of the CCRP without opposition in March of 2013; and elected to the GAGOP State Committee on April 20, 2013. In March 2015, Brant was re-elected CCRP Chairman unopposed. Also in March, Brant successfully led the effort to stop a proposed rules change to the GAGOP rules that would have created greater obstacles to participation in the party process.

Brant served on the Resolutions Committee at the 2012 and 2013 GAGOP state conventions. He is a co-founder of GeorgiaCaucus.org and has written for zpolitics.com as well as other political websites. As a young Christian Conservative Brant has always striven to conduct himself in a manner that would be a credit to his Lord, his family, and his country.

Catherine Bernard, NFRA Director from Georgia

Catherine Bernard, NFRA Director from Georgia

Catherine Bernard has served as the lady junior NFRA National Director for Georgia, succeeding Debra Williams. In addition, Catherine has developed a reputation as a successful criminal defense attorney in Georgia. In 2012 she was elected as a delegate to the National Republican Convention. She has also been the Republican nominee for two State House races in urban DeKalb. She and her husband Eric reside in DeKalb County.

Nathaniel Darnell, NFRA Director from Georgia

Nathaniel Darnell, NFRA Director from Georgia

Nathaniel has served as the NFRA Director of the GRA since 2021, succeeding Ron Hooper in that position. The year before that, as the 3rd Vice President of the GRA and as the Chairman of the Cobb County Republican Assembly in 2020. He also was elected as the Vice Chair of Communications for the Cobb County Republican Party in 2019 and continued to serve in that capacity in 2020. He first started working in Georgia Republican politics in 1996, working for eight different Republican state legislators over the course of eight legislative sessions, including Tom Graves in his freshman year as a state representative, and Casey Cagle when he was still a minority-party state senator. He also served State Senator Mike Crane (R-Newnan), State Rep. Mitchell Kaye (R-Cobb), State Senator Billy Ray (R-Gwinnett), and others. He served as a state committee member for the Georgia Republican Party in the 11th Congressional District for seven years, as the Executive Director of the Cobb County Republican Party for three years. Nathaniel holds a juris doctorate with Oak Brook College of Law and works as a licensed financial advisor and insurance professional in Georgia.

Alex Johnson, GRA President

Alex Johnson, GRA President

Alex attended Oglethorpe University and received a B.A. in Politics and attended Georgia State Law school for his Juris Doctor. While at Oglethorpe, he helped found the College Republicans in 2003. In 2009, he became involved in the DeKalb County Republican Party and DeKalb County Young Republicans serving as Secretary, Vice Chair and eventual two-term Chairman of the DeKalb County Young Republicans.

He has served within the DeKalb County Republican Party as an Executive Committee member, Senate District Chair, and General (Legal) Counsel, as well as being the Republican candidate for the Georgia State Senate in District 41 in 2010 against Democrat Steve Henson, losing but garnering approximately 43% of the vote.

Alex ran for Georgia GOP Chairman in 2013, 2015, and 2017 (receiving 40%, 45%, and 47% of the vote, respectively). He has also founded Advance the GOP, an informational effort to improve the Republican Party in Georgia by holding politicians accountable to the Republican principles that they claimed to support when they took office.

He received the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) President’s Award for Activism in 2017, and was also elected to serve as the Southern Regional Vice-President for the NFRA.

As his paying job, Alex practices law throughout Georgia, focusing on both personal injury and civil rights litigation, as well as representing businesses. He lives in Dunwoody, Georgia with his wife, Andrea.

Silas Roberts, Chair of the Chapter Relations Committee

Silas Roberts, Chair of the Chapter Relations Committee

Silas Roberts was first appointed the Chapter Relations Chairman of the GRA in August of 2021. He has been an active member of the Hart County Republican Party for many years with the rest of his family. The second-born son of Timothy Roberts, Sr. and Linda Roberts, Silas has experience working in congressional campaigns crossing multiple county lines as well as in operating a successful landscaping business.

J. Gregory Howard, Chair of the New Membership Committee

J. Gregory Howard, Chair of the New Membership Committee

As the Chairman of the New Membership Committee, Gregory Howard had the special task of vetting applicants for new membership into the Georgia Republican Assembly. He served in this role from February 2021 until the conclusion of the GRA State Convention in December of 2021. Greg is from Gwinnett County, and has served with distinction as the President of the Gwinnett RA chapter there. He formerly served as the Chairman of the Gwinnett Republican Party, and hosts a conservative radio program called “News & Views.”

Celestine James, Chair of the Membership Committee

Celestine James, Chair of the Membership Committee

Celestine James from South Georgia, who is affectionately known by many as “CJ,” brings a special passion for outreach to overlooked groups for the Republican cause. She volunteered and was appointed to Chair the new Membership Committee for the GRA in January 2021.

As President of ANNIE’S LEGACY INC., a domestic nonprofit corporation, Celestine James is carrying on a spirit of service and compassion imparted by her mother, Annie Ruth Page Jones, who raised her family with only a fourth-grade education before tragically passing away of breast cancer at age 57. Ms. James and her siblings founded ANNIE’S LEGACY INC. over 25 years ago to honor their mother – a woman of strong moral character, a love of God, and a strong work ethic to overcome obstacles – by providing educators and students of humble means with classroom supplies and holiday meals, among other initiatives to boost opportunities for the leaders of tomorrow. Ms. James served four years of active duty in the U.S. Army and seven years in the U.S. Army Reserve. Ms. James also served in the Republican Party as a former Precinct Chair in Columbia County, 8th District Chair in Chatham County as well as Minority Engagement officer, Liaison between the Republican Party and Board of Elections as well as community engagement. Employment experience as a Health-Benefits Advisor at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, and Quality-Control Specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition to her work with ANNIE’S LEGACY INC., Ms. James serves her community as a civic advocate and a mother, carrying on a lifelong mission to bring dive …

Frank Molesky, Southeastern Regional Director

Frank Molesky, Southeastern Regional Director

Frank Molesky served as the 3rd Vice President of the GRA until he was elected as the new Southeastern NFRA Director in the autumn of 2019, a position he served in until a new Southeastern Regional NFRA Director was elected at the NFRA National Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona in October of 2021. Retired now after having worked as a successful financial advisor for many years, Frank has been active in the Republican Party and in the Republican Assembly all the way back since the 1964 Republican National Convention from California. He loves to travel.