DeKalb judicial candidates to be interviewed
Twenty-five applicants remain in the competition to fill two judicial vacancies in DeKalb County's courthouse.
The Georgia Judicial Nominating commission narrowed down the list after reviewing all of the 72 lawyers, judges and lawmakers who were nominated for the positions. The JNC will select finalists to submit to Gov. Nathan Deal after conducting interviews Monday.
Deal will then choose replacements for DeKalb State Court Judge Eleanor Ross, who is now a U.S. district court judge, and DeKalb Superior Court Judge Cynthia Becker, who has said she’ll retire March 1.
Here are the 25 applicants who will be interviewed:
J. Max Davis
E. Noreen Banks-Ware
Denise VanLanduyt
Akintunde Akinyele
Ronald Ramsey Sr.
Rebecca Crumrine Rieder
Mike Jacobs
Todd Boyce
Janis C. Gordon
Ronnie Dixon
Donna Coleman Stribling
Kiesha Storey
Jean-Paul Boulee
Lisa E. Chang
Jeffrey W. Stump
La Tisha Dear
Nicole M. Golden
Susan Coppedge Amato
Robert F. Dallas
Gregory J. Lohmeier
Brian K. Ross
Jonathan Granade
V. Natasha Perdew Silas
Christopher W. Timmons
Tony DelCampo
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
