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Georgia Chief Justice Harold Melton announced Friday that he has plans to issue an order to extend the Statewide Judicial Emergency for the last time. That order was first issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 14, 2020, and it's been extended 15 times since then. But in a virtual meeting Friday afternoon that included members of the state's Judicial Council, Chief Justice Melton told the group of Georgia judges that he intends.
GA Supreme Court has new Chief Justice, Presiding Justice Nahmias was elected to succeed Chief Justice Harold D. Melton (Source: Ga. Supreme Court) By Dave Miller | March 16, 2021 at 8:59 AM EDT - Updated March 16 at 8:59 AM
ATLANTA, Ga. (WALB) - Presiding Justice David E. Nahmias was unanimously elected by his colleagues last week to become the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He will succeed Chief Justice Harold D. Melton, who will resign from the Court on July 1, 2021, after 16 years of distinguished service as a justice.
The Court also unanimously elected Justice Michael P. Boggs as its next Presiding Justice.
Georgia Supreme Court elects next chief justice
March 11, 2021
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ATLANTA (AP) Georgia s Supreme Court justices voted unanimously Thursday to select the high court s next leader.
Presiding Justice David Nahmias is set to become chief justice when Chief Justice Harold Melton leaves the court on July 1. The justices also unanimously elected Justice Michael Boggs to succeed Nahmias as the next presiding justice.
Georgia chief justices serve one four-year term as the head of the state s judicial branch. The chief justice is the spokesperson for the high court and for the rest of the state s judiciary and presides over oral arguments and deliberation meetings. The chief justice also chairs the Georgia Judicial Council, which makes policy for the judicial branch.
Jury Trials to Resume Again!
The world has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic for a year now. All sectors of life, from businesses to schools, to courts, to places of worship, have socially-distanced and shifted to technology to carry out their work.
A year ago, on March 14, 2020, Chief Justice Melton of the Supreme Court of Georgia declared a Statewide Judicial Emergency in the State of Georgia due to the “transmission of Coronavirus/COVID-19 throughout the State and the potential infection of those who work in or are required to appear in our courts.”[i] The first order suspended all jury trials. Today, on March 9, 2021, almost one year after the first order, Chief Justice Melton has entered the 12th order extending the judicial emergency. This order authorizes jury trials to begin again.[ii]