Gov. Sonny Perdue on Wednesday named two young conservatives, Keith R. Blackwell and Stephen L. A. Dillard, to the state Court of Appeals.

Both Blackwell and Dillard are former federal court law clerks who have been active in lawyers’ chapters of the Federalist Society. Blackwell, 35, is a partner at Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs in Atlanta, and Dillard, 40, is of counsel at James Bates Pope Spivey in Macon. They will replace G. Alan Blackburn, who is retiring from the court, and Debra H. Bernes, who died in July after a battle with cancer.

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