Shelby Grubbs, Atlanta Center for International Arbitration and Mediation, Atlanta

Georgia State College of Law announced Wednesday that Shelby Grubbs will leave his post as executive director of the Atlanta Center for International Arbitration and Mediation and return to Miller & Martin, where he will lead the Atlanta office.

That is the law firm Grubbs left to join the GSU arbitration center in 2014 when it was still under construction.

“I came to do a job, not have a job,” Grubbs said this week, reflecting on his role in helping the arbitration center get started. His recruitment was part of a push by the city's legal, business and political leaders to make Atlanta a hub for international arbitration.