# Rich McCormick

Richard Dean McCormick (born October 7, 1968) is an American physician and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he has represented Georgia in the United States House of Representatives since 2023. Until 2025, he represented the 6th congressional district, the wealthiest in Georgia. In 2024, he was elected to represent the 7th congressional district.

## Education and military service

McCormick was born in Las Vegas in 1968 and graduated from Central Catholic High School in Portland, Oregon, in 1986. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Oregon State University in 1990. He earned his Master of Business Administration from National University in 1999 and his Doctor of Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine in 2010.
McCormick served in the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy for over 20 years, spending time in Africa, South Korea, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf. In the Marine Corps, he was a Naval Aviator and helicopter pilot; in the Navy, he was a Medical Corps officer and reached the rank of commander. He is an emergency physician and works at Gwinnett Medical Center.

## U.S. House of Representatives
### Elections

With Rob Woodall not running for reelection to the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 7th congressional district in the 2020 elections, McCormick announced his candidacy. He won the primary election, receiving more than 50% of the vote, avoiding a runoff election. McCormick lost the general election to Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux.
Following redistricting due to the 2020 U.S. census, McCormick announced his candidacy in the 2022 elections for the newly-redrawn Georgia's 6th congressional district, which became much more Republican-leaning. In a Republican primary with nine candidates, McCormick and Jake Evans advanced to a primary runoff. He defeated Evans in the runoff and won the November 8 general election against Democrat Bob Christian.

### Tenure

McCormick was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.
On November 7, McCormick's H.Res. 845 censured Rashida Tlaib for "promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel".
In December 2023, fellow Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene accused McCormick of grabbing her by the shoulders and shaking her, following a public spat between the two. She asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to investigate her claims. McCormick said he apologized for the interaction and despite an investigation by the Speaker of the House including a review of surveillance footage and dozens of witnesses, her allegations could not be corroborated.
Following the 2024 New Hampshire Republican primary in January, McCormick endorsed Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, writing, "I am calling on my fellow conservatives to join me in uniting behind Donald Trump for president." McCormick had previously supported Ron DeSantis's presidential bid. During an October 2024 rally for Trump's campaign at McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta, McCormick said that Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaking to Maria Bartiromo on Mornings with Maria in December 2024, McCormick said non-discretionary federal spending should be cut, explaining that:
   We're going to have to have some hard decisions. We got to bring the Democrats in to talk about Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. There's hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved, and we know how to do it, we just have to have the stomach to actually take those challenges on.
In January 2025, McCormick cosponsored fellow GOP House member Eric Burlison's bill recognizing personhood as starting at conception.
McCormick criticized having "a blanket rule that gives all kids lunches in high school", as the high schoolers "are capable of going out and actually getting a job and doing something that makes them have value", such as "going to work at Burger King, McDonald's, during the summer". When confronted with the fact that many children are not of working age, many 5 and under, he acknowledged that his guideline did not apply to everybody.

### Committee assignments

For the 118th Congress:
* Committee on Armed Services
** Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation
** Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
* Committee on Foreign Affairs
** Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
** Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia
* Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
** Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
** Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
* Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

## Electoral history
### 2024

Georgia's 7th congressional district general election, 2024 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Rich McCormick (incumbent) | 275,907 | 64.85 |
| | Democratic | Bob Christian | 149,535 | 35.15 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 425,442 | 100 |

### 2022

Georgia 6th congressional district Republican primary, 2022 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Rich McCormick | 48,967 | 43.1 |
| | Republican | Jake Evans | 26,160 | 23.0 |
| | Republican | Mary Mallory Staples | 10,178 | 9.0 |
| | Republican | Meagan Hanson | 9,539 | 8.4 |
| | Republican | Eugene Yu | 7,411 | 6.5 |
| | Republican | Blake Harbin | 4,171 | 3.7 |
| | Republican | Byron Gatewood | 3,358 | 3.0 |
| | Republican | Suzi Voyles | 2,646 | 2.3 |
| | Republican | Paulette Smith | 1,123 | 1.0 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 113,553 | 100.0 |
Georgia 6th congressional district Republican primary runoff, 2022 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Rich McCormick | 27,455 | 66.5 |
| | Republican | Jake Evans | 13,808 | 33.5 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 41,263 | 100.0 |
Georgia 6th congressional district general election, 2022 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Rich McCormick | 206,886 | 62.22 |
| | Democratic | Bob Christian | 125,612 | 37.78 |

### 2020

Georgia 7th congressional district Republican primary, 2020 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Rich McCormick | 35,280 | 55.11 |
| | Republican | Renee S. Unterman | 11,143 | 17.41 |
| | Republican | Mark Gonsalves | 4,640 | 7.25 |
| | Republican | Lynne Homrich | 4,567 | 7.13 |
| | Republican | Eugene Yu | 3,856 | 6.02 |
| | Republican | Lisa Noel Babbage | 3,336 | 5.21 |
| | Republican | Zachary H. Kennemore | 1,195 | 1.87 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 64,017 | 100.0 |
Georgia 7th congressional district general election, 2020 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Carolyn Bourdeaux | 190,900 | 51.39 |
| | Republican | Rich McCormick | 180,564 | 48.61 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 371,464 | 100.0 |

## Personal life

McCormick has three sons from his first marriage. McCormick's second wife, Debra Miller, is an oncologist. They separated in 2024. Shortly thereafter, Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne confirmed she and McCormick were in a relationship.
McCormick was the runner up of the seventh season of the initial run of American Gladiators, losing in the final to Pat Csizmazia.