Georgia Recorder
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton is stepping down after16 years on the court. Melton and former Gov. Nathan Deal collaborated on a wide-ranging criminal justice reform initiative over several years. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder (New Supreme Court unveiling, Jan. 2020)
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton announced Friday that he is stepping down on July 1 after spending 16 years serving on the state’s highest court, including the past year implementing a 2009 plan he led to keep the wheels of justice turning in a pandemic.
Melton’s announcement comes with a year-plus remaining on his four-year term, meaning Republican Gov. Brian Kemp gets the chance to appoint a new justice to the state’s high court for the third time since 2019.
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L-R, Rev. Dexter Wimbish (D) and incumbent District Attorney Marie Broder (R).
While most political ads have disappeared, there’s one local race still to be decided: district attorney for the Griffin Judicial Circuit, which includes Fayette, Spalding, Pike and Upson counties.
Veteran Assistant D.A. Marie Broder was appointed last year by Gov. Brian Kemp to replace Ben Coker, who became the circuit’s newest superior court judge. The special election on Feb. 9 is for the remaining two years of the four-year-term for D.A.
Broder, a Republican, has a Democrat opponent, Rev. Dexter Wimbish, a Griffin-based attorney and civil rights advocate.