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Deal picks Boggs to fill Appeals Court vacancy

By Bill Rankin
Dec 20, 2011

Gov. Nathan Deal has picked Superior Court Judge Michael Boggs of Blackshear to fill a vacancy on the Georgia Court of Appeals.

Boggs, who served in the state House of Representatives from 2001 to 2004, has presided as judge in the Waycross Judicial Circuit and founded its drug court program. More recently, Boggs served as a member of the Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform. He will succeed Judge J.D. Smith, who is resigning from the appeals court at the end of the year.

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Bill Rankin has been an AJC reporter for more than 30 years. His father, Jim Rankin, worked as an editor for the newspaper for 26 years, retiring in 1986. Bill has primarily covered the state’s court system, doing all he can do to keep the scales of justice on an even keel. Since 2015, he has been the host of the newspaper’s Breakdown podcast.

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