Comer Yates is the Executive Director of the Atlanta Speech School. He is a graduate of Emory University.

Comer is the husband of former acting Attorney General Sally Yates. They have two children together, Kelley and Quill. Kelley Yates, who is following her father’s footsteps and pursuing a career in education, got married in 2015 to Zach Rumble. Her younger brother, Quill, played rugby in college and currently lives in Waterville, Maine.^[18]

Comer Yates met Sally Yates while the pair were both lawyers at King & Spalding, a top law firm in Atlanta.^[17]

Comer was a donor to Barack Obama's presidential campaigns and has given him a total of $3,355.

Comer ran for Congress twice.

First, he ran as a Democrat against John Linder for Georgia's 4th congressional district in 1994 and lost. He then lost again to Cynthia McKinney in 1996 for Georgia's 6th Congressional District. ^[1]

Since 1998, Comer has served as executive director of the Atlanta Speech School. The school aids children and adults with certain speech and learning disabilities in attaining a proper education in language and literacy skills. Comer describes it as a "very business-like" operation and has spoken across the country about his work at the school.

“If I act like we run this tense, businesslike operation, we mask what we try to be as a school,” Yates said to Emory Magazine in 2012.

“So I try to reflect the qualities that we have here in my relationships with people.”^[17]

Comer earned his law degree from Emory Law School and went on to teach as part of their adjunct faculty. For 20 years, Comer taught at Daniel McLaughlin Therrell High School in Atlanta and coached the school's Mock Trial team.

In 2012, Comer was appointed by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to serve on the Georgia Commission on Hearing Impaired and Deaf Persons. On May 13th, Comer received an honorary degree of Doctors of Laws from Oglethorpe University.