This story was updated on December 23, 2025, at 3:53 p.m. to add new supervisor’s salary and dates for candidate qualifying, and to clarify that all seats in the county’s election board will be on the ballot next May, though not necessarily contested.
The Chatham County Board of Elections has a new supervisor.
She is Brook Schreiner, who comes to Chatham from Butts County, where she served as director of elections and registration for five years. Prior to that, she held the same position in Henry County for 10 years.
Chosen by the county’s five-member election board from a field of eight applicants, Schreiner succeeds Billy Wooten, who has staffed Chatham County elections since 1998 and has held the top job since 2020. He had been expected to step away from the job before next year’s midterm elections.
A statement issued by the board on Monday said Schreiner will officially assume her $95,000-a-year post on Feb. 2. From the board’s headquarters on Eisenhower Avenue on Savannah’s south side, she’ll oversee elections in a county where there are 88 voting precincts and the number of registered voters has soared to more than 232,300 — up from some 155,300 in 2016 and 200,300 in 2020 — and ballots are cast in 88 precincts.
By comparison, Butts County, where Schreiner most recently worked as elections supervisor, has one voting precinct and reported 17,559 registered voters in last year’s general election.
Schreiner will take charge of overseeing voting in Chatham on the eve of an especially hectic period on the election calendar. The five-day qualifying period for local candidates, which the office supervises, begins March 2, a month after her scheduled arrival. Hotly contested party primaries take place on May 19, followed almost certainly by primary runoffs in June and the general election in November. All of this will take place amid continued challenges by self-described election integrity groups to the state’s voting system and to the results of 2020 elections in Georgia.
Changes are also coming to the county election board, to which Schreiner answers. Its four partisan seats — two Republicans and two Democrats — will be on the ballot in May. A new board, once seated in January 2027, is expected to name a successor to current chairman Thomas Mahoney III, who has indicated his current term will be his last.
In the statement issued by the board announcing her hiring, Schreiner said her primary goal “is to ensure every eligible voter has full confidence in the integrity and accessibility of our election process.”
“I look forward to working closely with the Board and the dedicated staff to uphold transparency and professionalism in all our operations as we prepare for the upcoming election cycle.”