SAVANNAH After interviewing 30 applicants and deliberating for two hours Thursday in Savannah, the governor’s Judicial Nominating Commission submitted a short list of seven candidates five judges, a former federal prosecutor and a business litigator for a vacancy on the Supreme Court of Georgia.
The finalists are: DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Cynthia “C.J.” Becker; state Court of Appeals Judge Keith Blackwell; Elizabeth “Lisa” Branch, a litigator at Smith, Gambrell & Russell; Michael Brown, co-leader of Alston & Bird’s Government and Internal Investigations Group; Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge William “Billy” Ray Jr.; Macon Superior Court Judge Tilman “Tripp” Self III; and Henry County State Court Chief Judge Ben Studdard III.
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