Representative J Collins Contact information

J. Collins is a member of the Republican Party and represents District 71 in the Georgia House of Representatives. He assumed office on January 9, 2023, and his current term ends on January 13, 2025. Before this, he represented District 68.

Collins lives in Villa Rica, Georgia. He ran for re-election to the Georgia House of Representatives to represent District 71 and won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

In terms of his committee assignments for the years 2023-2024, Collins was assigned to the following committees: House Appropriations Committee, Governmental Affairs Committee, Juvenile Justice Committee (where he served as Secretary), Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee (where he served as Chair), and the Regulated Industries Committee.

Before his current tenure, Collins had similar committee assignments for the years 2021-2022 and 2019-2020. In the 2017 legislative session, he served on the Governmental Affairs Committee, Juvenile Justice Committee (as Secretary), Regulated Industries Committee, and was the Vice Chairman of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.

Collins’ personal details reveal that he was born James Allen Collins on September 23, 1976. He is a funeral director and politician from Georgia. Notably, Collins was elected as the youngest mayor of Villa Rica, Georgia, a position he held from 2003 to 2016.

Collins’ parents were a school teacher and a grocer. His grandfather, J. Edwin Busbin, was a funeral home director. Collins attended Villa Rica Elementary School and later attended West Georgia College. In February 2000, Collins graduated from Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service and received his license as a Funeral Director and Embalmers in September 2000.

In 1997, Collins began working in funeral service. On July 1, 2002, he became a funeral home director and owner of J. Collins Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Villa Rica, Georgia.

In November 2003, Collins was elected as the youngest mayor of Villa Rica, Georgia. He served as mayor until 2016. On November 8, 2016, Collins won the election unopposed and became a Republican member of Georgia House of Representatives for District 68.

Collins has one child with a former wife. He married Holly Reece in 2021 and they live with his daughter above their funeral home in Villa Rica, GA.