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The State Bar of Georgia has three offices: in Atlanta, Savannah and Tifton. The headquarters of State Bar of Georgia, known as the Bar Center, is located at 104 Marietta Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30303. Phone 404-527-8700. The South Georgia Office is located at 244 E. Second Street, Tifton, GA 31793. Phone 229-387-0446.
Stacey Yvonne Abrams ( / ˈeɪbrəmz /; [1] born December 9, 1973) is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. [2] A member of the Democratic Party, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to ...
The state government of Georgia is the U.S. state governmental body established by the Georgia State Constitution. It is a republican form of government with three branches: the legislature, executive, and judiciary. Through a system of separation of powers or "checks and balances", each of these branches has some authority to act on its own ...
Civil engineer. Bradford Jay Raffensperger (born May 18, 1955) [1] [2] is an American businessman, civil engineer, and politician serving as the Secretary of State of Georgia since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Georgia House of Representatives, representing District 50.
The Georgia House of Representatives is the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly (the state legislature) of the U.S. state of Georgia. There are currently 180 elected members. Republicans have had a majority in the chamber since 2005. The current House Speaker is Jon G. Burns .
The Georgia Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Georgia. The court is a single entity with 15 judges. The judges are assigned into five divisions of three judges each, with the assignments changed annually. Cases are randomly assigned to one of the divisions, with the constraint that the number of ...
The Supreme Court of Georgia is the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Georgia. The court was established in 1845 as a three-member panel, increased in number to six, then to seven in 1945, and finally to nine in 2017. [1] Since 1896, the justices have been elected by the people of the state. The justices are currently elected in ...
Lawyers. First females: Minnie Anderson Hale, Betty Reynolds Cobb and Mary C. Johnson (1916) [1] [2] First female to practice before the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Georgia: Viola Ross Napier (1920) in 1922 [3] First African American female: Rachel E. Pruden-Herndon (1942) [4]