Short list for Georgia Supreme Court appointment
Yesterday I had a mostly pleasant visit with the Judicial Nominating Commission as they interviewed people whose names had been submitted to them with regard to a vacancy on the Supreme Court of Georgia.
I went into that process expecting nothing, and was not disappointed.
Congratulations to the eight judges and lawyers who did make the short list, from which Governor Perdue will select one new member of the Supreme Court. I wish them all well. They are, in alphabetical order:
- Stephen Louis A. Dillard – Of Counsel, James, Bates, Pope & Spivey; Macon
- James P. Kelly III – Managing partner of Kelly Law Firm; Atlanta
- David E. Nahmias – U.S. Attorney; Northern District of Georgia
- Samuel D. Ozburn –Superior Court Judge; Alcovy Judicial Circuit
- William M. Ray II – Superior Court Judge; Gwinnett County
- Craig L. Schwall Sr. – Superior Court Judge; Fulton County
- Mary E. Staley – Superior Court Judge; Cobb County
- Benjamin W. Studdard III – State Court Chief Judge; Henry County
- Rocco E. Testani – Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan; Atlanta
After that brief interruption, I'm back to vigorously representing catastrophically injured people and their families.
Ken Shigley is a trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia who has been listed as a "Super Lawyer" (Atlanta Magazine), among the "Legal Elite" (Georgia Trend Magazine), and in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers (Martindale), and is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He served as chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Litigation Institute, is on the National Advisory Board for the Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, and is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs for the Interstate Trucking Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice. Mr. Shigley has extensive experience representing parties in trucking and bus accidents, products liability, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, spinal cord injury, brain injury and burn injury cases. Currently he is Treasurer of the 40,000 member State Bar of Georgia.This post is subject to our ethical disclaimer.
