In addition to being Georgia's Insurance Commissioner, John W. Oxendine is also the Safety Fire Commissioner, Industrial Loan Commissioner and Comptroller General. His duties include regulating approximately 1,600 insurance companies; licensing 149,000 insurance agents; and regulating over 1,000 industrial loan offices.

Oxendine has been instrumental in passing legislation that made health insurance portable, protected consumers from unlicensed insurance companies, reduced the cost of workers compensation insurance in Georgia, improved the quality of healthcare in rural Georgia, protected citizens from dangerous pyrotechnics, and implemented tough disclosure laws for insurance companies and agents. In 2005 he launched his $126.5 million Rural Health Initiative which includes one of the largest and most comprehensive telemedicine networks in the United States.

He has received many awards for his public service including the Dr. Nathan Davis Award for outstanding statewide elected official from the American Medical Association, the Friend of Housing Award from the Georgia Apartment Association, the Chairman’s Hope Award from Operation Hope, and the Special Presidential Award from the Georgia State Firefighters Association.

Oxendine has served or is serving on numerous boards for non-profit organizations, including the Northeast Georgia Boy Scouts of America, the Board of Directors of Safe Kids of Georgia, and the Gwinnett Neighborhood Leadership Institute He received his undergraduate degree in 1984 and his law degree in 1987, both from Mercer University. He currently resides in Gwinnett County with his wife Ivy and their children J.W., Philip and Caroline.