佐治亚州州长坎普宣布三项州法院法官任命
佐治亚州州长Brian Kemp宣布科布县州法院三项法官任命：法官Ashley J. Palmer由第二庭调任第一庭，填补法官Jane P. Manning辞职留下的空缺；科布县治安法院法官Mellori E. Lumpkin-Dawson接任第二庭；Marietta律师D. Austin Gillis获任第二庭另一席位，填补法官Marsha S. Lake辞职留下的空缺。
Palmer法官2021年6月获任州法院第二庭法官，本科与法学学位均取自范德比尔特大学。Lumpkin-Dawson法官2024年获任科布县治安法院法官，来自Bainbridge、现居Smyrna，毕业于佛罗里达农工大学与加州大学伯克利分校法学院，2018年起曾任联邦检察官办公室助理检察官。Gillis是科布县本地人、终身Marietta居民，从事私人执业约20年，毕业于Oglethorpe大学与佐治亚大学法学院。
州法院是佐治亚州承担有限管辖权的审级法院，主要审理轻罪案件与部分民事纠纷。此次任命使科布县州法院两个庭的法官阵容补齐。
（来源：佐治亚州州长办公室）
Georgia Governor Kemp Announces Three Appointments to State Court Benches
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced three appointments to the State Court of Cobb County: Judge Ashley J. Palmer moves from Division II to Division I, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Jane P. Manning; Cobb County Magistrate Court Judge Mellori E. Lumpkin-Dawson was named to Division II; and Marietta attorney D. Austin Gillis was appointed to a second Division II seat, filling the vacancy from the resignation of Judge Marsha S. Lake.
Judge Palmer was first appointed to Division II in June 2021 and earned both her undergraduate and law degrees from Vanderbilt University. Judge Lumpkin-Dawson, a Bainbridge native living in Smyrna, was appointed to the Magistrate Court in 2024, graduated from Florida A&M University and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Georgia beginning in 2018. Gillis is a Cobb County native and lifelong Marietta resident with about 20 years in private practice, educated at Oglethorpe University and the University of Georgia School of Law.
State courts in Georgia are courts of limited jurisdiction handling misdemeanor cases and certain civil matters. The appointments complete the bench for both divisions of the Cobb County State Court.
(Source: Office of the Governor of Georgia)
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