Megan Varner/Getty Images(ATLANTA) Nearly a decade ago, Judge Jerry Baxter oversaw the prosecution that first thrust Georgia s Fani Willis in the spotlight a massive scandal involving cheating by teachers in Atlanta s public schools.
Now, many more eyes are watching the Fulton County district attorney as her investigation into alleged efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia nears its end and a potential fourth indictment looms for Trump, who denies all wrongdoing.
A charging decision is imminent. Willis is expected to present her findings to a grand jury next week.
"I would hate to have Fani Willis after me," Baxter told ABC News. "She is a superb trial lawyer and the real deal."
A tenacious prosecutor
Willis has said she knew since she was young and accompanied her father, a former Black Panther and defense attorney, to court that she wanted to be a lawyer.
She received her undergraduate deg
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