Shigley is new State Bar president
Atlanta lawyer Kenneth Shigley of the firm Chambers, Aholt & Rickard is the new president of the State Bar of Georgia.
Shigley, who will serve a one-year term, became the 49th president of the 42,000-member legal group during the bar's recent annual meeting in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Other top officers are: president-elect Robin Frazer Clark of Atlanta, treasurer Charles L. Ruffin of Macon and secretary Patrice Perkins-Hooker, the vice president and general counsel of Atlanta BeltLine Inc.
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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.
