Governor Nathan Deal - Georgia’s 82nd Governor (2011-2019)

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Deal appoints Boggs to Georgia Court of Appeals

December 20, 2011

Gov. Nathan Deal today appointed Michael Boggs to the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Boggs fills the vacancy created by the resignation of the Honorable J.D. Smith.

Michael P. Boggs

Boggs is a Superior Court judge within the Waycross Judicial Circuit. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2001-04. Boggs serves as a member of the Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform, the Georgia Judicial Nominating Commission, the Judicial Council of Georgia Standing Committee on Accountability Courts, and is the founding director of the Waycross Judicial Circuit Drug Court Program. He earned his bachelors degree from Georgia Southern College and law degree from Mercer Universitys Walter F. George School of Law. He and his wife, Heather, reside in Blackshear.