Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Friday he has filled two open seats on the Cobb Superior Court.
They are former Cobb District Attorney Vic Reynolds, the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and Georgia Deputy Attorney General Julie Adams Jacobs.
Reynolds, whom Kemp appointed to head the GBI in 2019, will succeed Judge Tain Kell, who resigned in April to return to private law practice.
Jacobs, who has been in the Georgia Attorney General’s office since 2003, replaces Judge Mary Staley Clark, who retired effective May 1.
Reynolds and Jacobs will fill the remainder of the terms of Kell and Staley-Clark, through the end of 2024.
Reynolds was twice elected as Cobb District Attorney and also is a former Cobb Chief Magistrate judge, a lawyer in private practice and a former police officer.
He earned his law degree from the Georgia State University College of Law and received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Georgia Southern University.
As deputy attorney general, Jacobs has been head of the commercial transactions and litigation division. She also has been a hearing officer in hospital acquisitions.
Jacobs is a graduate of Emory University Law School and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Georgia State University.
Cobb Superior Court has 11 judges who are elected on a non-partisan basis and eight appointed senior judges, who are retired but hear special and occasional cases.
The Court hears major felony and criminal cases and complex civil litigation, as well as divorces and land property disputes and conducts jury trials.
In a release, Kemp’s office said the governor will appoint a successor to Reynolds at the GBI at a later date.
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