The White House has reportedly hired former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to replace Cedric Richmond as a senior adviser.

Fox News reports:

Bottoms, a CNN political commentator, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, and the former mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022, will begin as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement in the coming weeks.

Bottoms wrote on Instagram that she was “#Honored.”

“Mayor Bottoms understands that democracy is about making government work for working families, for the people who are the backbone of this country. She led the city of Atlanta with strength through the pandemic, through a summer of protests and pain, and through the mass shooting that left Atlanta’s Asian American community in fear,” Biden said in a statement. “Keisha is bright, honorable, tough and has the integrity required to represent our Administration to the American public. Jill and I have known Keisha for a long time and look forward to working with her more closely.”

Richmond, a former U.S. Louisiana congressman until 2021, departed the White House last month to work for the Democratic National Committee.

Axios reported that in choosing Bottoms as his replacement, the White House aimed to fulfill its commitment to elevate leaders of color. Bottoms was previously on Biden’s shortlist for vice president, but he until he ultimately chose Kamala Harris.