Current Cobb Chief Magistrate Judge Joyette Holmes has been appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp as the new Cobb District Attorney.
She succeeds Vic Reynolds, now the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and will serve out the remainder of his term, which ends in December 2020.
Holmes, a Republican, is the first woman and the first African-American to serve as Cobb DA. She is a former Assistant District Attorney in Cobb County, and also served in the Cobb Solicitor’s Office.
She has been the Chief Magistrate for the last four years and also has been in private law practice in Marietta.
A native of Valdosta, Holmes earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and a law degree from the University of Baltimore.
At a press conference, Kemp said that Holmes “is able and ready to lead” the Cobb DA’s office. “She is certainly one of our best and brightest in Georgia.”
John Melvin, who has been the acting Cobb DA since Reynolds’ departure, is expected to join him soon at the GBI.
The DA’s office said this afternoon that the transition may take another couple of weeks because Holmes’ swearing-in has not been scheduled.
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