Porter appointed to judicial watchdog agency
Patsy Porter, chief judge of the Fulton County State Court, has been appointed to serve on the seven-member Judicial Qualifications Commission.
Porter, appointed by the Georgia Supreme Court, will replace Muscogee County Superior Court Judge John Allen, who once chaired the judicial watchdog agency. Porter will serve the remainder of Allen’s term on the commission beginning Sept. 1 through Jan. 4, 2015. Porter was appointed to the Fulton bench by Gov. Zell Miller in 1996.
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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.
