2024-2025 Commission Members, Advisors & Liaisons
Members
The Honorable Michael P. Boggs, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
Chair of the Commission
Lamar Barnett
AFLAC
Columbus, GA
Associate Dean M. Scott Boone
District Attorney Marie G. Broder
Griffin Judicial Circuit
Griffin, GA
Ivy N. Cadle
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
Macon, GA
Professor Nathan S. Chapman
University of Georgia School of Law
Athens, GA
Professor Clark D. Cunningham
Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, GA
Anissa D. Floyd
Smurfit Westrock
Atlanta, GA
Molly Barrett Gillis
The Gillis Law Firm, LLC, Marietta, GA
The Honorable
Elizabeth D. Gobeil
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Atlanta, GA
The Honorable
Steven D. Grimberg
U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
Atlanta, GA
Professor
Tonja Jacobi
Emory University School of Law
Atlanta, GA
Francys Johnson
Nekia Hackworth Jones
Atlanta, GA
Professor Patrick E. Longan
Mercer University School of Law
Macon, GA
The Honorable T. Russell McClelland III
State Court of Forsyth County
Cumming, GA
Kenneth Mitchell Jr.
Cobb County Solicitor General’s Office
Marietta, GA
Rizza O’Connor
Bryant O’Connor LLP
Vidalia, GA
The Honorable Benjamin S. Richardson
Chattahoochee Circuit Superior Court
Columbus, GA
Lauren Shubow
Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office
Atlanta, GA
Cathy Clark Tyler
Atkins Global North America, Inc
Atlanta, GA
LaToya Simone Williams
Georgia Public Defender Council
Atlanta, GA
Advisors
Justice Andrew A. Pinson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Atlanta, GA
Jennifer Davis Ward
Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
Atlanta, GA
Liaisons
James D. Blitch IV
Atlanta, GA
Damon Elmore
State Bar of Georgia
Atlanta, GA
Michael Herskowitz
State Bar of Georgia Committee on Professionalism Liaison
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Atlanta, GA
Julia Neighbors
Institute of Continuing Legal Education
Atlanta, GA
Robert L. Rothman
American Bar Association Liaison
Atlanta, GA
Dee Dee Worley
Commission on Continuing Lawyer Competency
Atlanta, GA