The same day the State Bar of Georgia publicly reprimanded the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives for an ethics violation involving one of his former clients, Speaker David Ralston appointed the attorney who had defended him during the course of the ethics probe as one of his two representatives to the state’s judicial watchdog agency.
In doing so, Ralston, a Blue Ridge attorney, ignored two lists and a total of 25 attorneys from across the state that the bar had recommended as potential nominees to the state Judicial Qualifications Commission.
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