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.