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Thompson to become presiding justice of Ga. Supreme Court

By Bill Rankin
July 10, 2012

Justice Hugh Thompson has been unanimously elected by his colleagues to serve as the next presiding justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. He will assume his new role on July 18.

This also means Thompson is next in line to serve as the court's chief justice and will succeed Carol Hunstein when her term as chief ends in 2013. Thompson, a native of Milledgeville, is a former trial judge and was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 1994 by then-Gov. Zell Miller.

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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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