A Cobb County assistant district attorney will lead the state’s efforts to dismantle the human trafficking industry.
Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Hannah Palmquist has been named by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to lead the state’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.
Palmquist’s tenure with the unit will start July 1. The attorney general said the creation of the unit “speaks volumes about the importance of this issue” to Georgia residents.
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“We will work every single day with all of our law enforcement partners to protect our state’s most vulnerable and put buyers and traffickers behind bars,” Car added. “This work requires an experienced and aggressive prosecutor of those who have abused our children, and that is what Georgians are getting with Hannah Palmquist leading this Unit.”
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Palmquist said she's honored to join the team announced in May by Carr and Gov. Brian Kemp. The unit will be part of the Department of Law's Prosecution Division.
“Beginning on day one, this team will fight alongside local, state and federal partners and will utilize every weapon in our arsenal to imprison those who seek to buy or sell our children, disrupt human trafficking networks and rescue those who are victims of this horrific industry,” she said.
The six-person unit will consist of a senior prosecutor, junior prosecutor, criminal investigator, crime analyst, victim advocate and administrative assistant.
Palmquist, who earned her law degree from Emory School of Law, has served as the assistant district attorney in Cobb and DeKalb counties. In Cobb, she prosecuted sex crimes against children and human trafficking victims in the District Attorney’s Office’s Special Victims Unit. In September 2018, she was named supervisor of the DA Office’s Juvenile Unit.
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