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The Court of Appeals of Georgia is one of the busiest state appellate courts in the nation. In 2019, the court disposed of 2,445 direct appeals [11] and 836 applications, [12] or requests to file direct appeals. The 1996 statute that increased the number of judges to ten also changed the process by which cases would be decided in the event of a ...
The highest judiciary power in Georgia is the Supreme Court, which is composed of nine justices. [11] The state also has a Court of Appeals made of 15 judges. [ 11 ] Georgia is divided into 49 judicial circuits, each of which has a Superior Court consisting of local citizens numbering between two and 19 members depending on the circuit population.
On January 16, 2013 Governor Nathan Deal appointed McMillian to the Georgia Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of A. Harris Adams. [4] [5] She was sworn into office on January 24, 2013. [6] She is the first Asian Pacific American state appellate judge ever to be appointed in the Southeast. [7]
In early October 2015 Rickman was one of 11 individuals under consideration for appointment to the court of appeals. [9] On October 29, 2015 Governor Nathan Deal announced the appointment of Rickman to the Georgia Court of Appeals, for a term beginning January 1, 2016. [6] He was sworn into office by Governor Deal on December 29, 2015. [10]
A Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case against President-elect Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators in the 2020 election.
She was appointed to the Georgia Court of Appeals on July 12, 1999 by Governor Roy Barnes and became the 65th Judge on the court. She is the first African-American woman to serve on the Court as well as the first African-American woman to serve as the Court's Chief Judge. [3]
The Georgia Court of Appeals last month disqualified Willis from her prosecution of Trump and his co-defendants due to a "significant appearance of impropriety," leaving the question of who takes ...
Georgia’s Court of Appeals disqualified Willis and her office from the 2020 election case last month in a 2-1 decision that her romance with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade amounted to a ...