Gov. Brian Kemp and Judge Walter Davis of the Georgia Business Court have made a choice for the first clerk of the new Statewide Business Court—pending approval of the judiciary committees of the Senate and House of Representatives.

It's longtime Cobb County State Court clerk Angie T. Davis.

She is on the program for a judiciary committee hearing in the Capitol at 2:30 p.m. July 28. The confirmation process is the same as that for the judge, who was nominated and confirmed last year.

"I am very grateful to the governor for his appointment of Angie Davis as the first clerk of court for the Georgia Statewide Business Court," the judge said Wednesday.

"Angie has worked in and around the court system her entire career, including 20 years as the Cobb County State Court Clerk. Her knowledge and experience will be invaluable to me personally and to the Court as a new institution," Davis said.

"And perhaps more importantly, I think litigants who do not yet know her will appreciate, not only the high degree of professionalism she brings to the role, but her incredibly easygoing nature. I could not have imagined starting this court with a better partner than Angie," he added.

Davis broke the news to her staff at the Cobb courthouse Wednesday morning and to the bench Wednesday afternoon.

"I love what I do here. I've got an amazing team—best in class," she said in a phone interview with the Daily Report. "They have the highest standards. So hopefully I can bring some of that to the business court."

She has also presided over the modernization of the courts record system, moving from paper to electronic files.

Cobb State Court is one of the state's busiest for civil litigation, with a high concentration of Fortune 500 companies locating their registered agents there.

Angie Davis was sworn in as clerk there in 2013 after serving as chief deputy clerk for 13 years. Previously, she served as clerk and court administrator of the Cobb County Magistrate Court. She attended Cobb County public schools before earning a B.A. in English from Georgia Southern University in 1991. In 1996, she earned a masters in public administration from Kennesaw State University. She received a Certificate of Local Government Management in 1998 from the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government. She was also designated a fellow of the Institute for Court Management, the only nationally accredited court management program in the country, upon completing the National Center for State Court's Court Executive Development Program in 1999.