Joyette Holmes (Courtesy photo)

Cobb Judicial Circuit Chief Magistrate Judge Joyette Holmes will be sworn in as district attorney at 10:30 a.m. on July 1 in the ceremonial courtroom of the Cobb County Superior Court building in Marietta.

Gov. Brian Kemp is expected to administer the oath of office. Kemp appointed Holmes to replace Vic Reynolds, whom he chose to become executive director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Cobb County Communications Director Ross Cavitt said Monday the ceremony will be recorded and livestreamed on Facebook. A reception will follow in the jury assembly room.

Upon her swearing in, Holmes, 43, will become Cobb's first female and first African American DA.

She broke the same barrier when the Cobb County Superior Court appointed her chief magistrate in 2015 after Frank Cox resigned. She then ran and was elected to the position in 2016.

“I am honored to have the opportunity to continue to serve the people of Cobb County, and I thank Governor Kemp for the trust that he has placed in me,” Holmes said in the governor's news release when the appointment was announced.

Holmes is a native of Valdosta. She graduated from Valdosta High School and the University of Georgia, where she earned dual bachelor's degrees in psychology and criminal justice. She earned her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law in Maryland.

Holmes worked as a public defender in Maryland fresh out of law school. After moving to Cobb County—her husband's home—she had a private practice in criminal defense and family law. And she worked a stint as a prosecutor on misdemeanor cases for Solicitor General Barry Morgan.

Holmes and Reynolds became well acquainted in the summer of 2012. That was the year he was first elected DA. Holmes in 2012 was one of four candidates for an open seat on Cobb's traffic court. Judge Marsha Lake won. But Reynolds hired Holmes as an assistant district attorney.

The Cobb County Superior Court named Holmes chief magistrate in March 2015. Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton named Holmes this year to an “Ad Hoc Committee to Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Judicial Branch of Government.” He charged the group with “gathering research, examining and evaluating best practices, and encouraging all classes of Georgia courts and court councils to establish policies to prevent sexual harassment.”