The chairman of the Judicial Qualifications Commission and its newly hired director on Friday rejected concerns that the director’s ongoing role in a bar discipline case against the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives creates a potential conflict of interest for him and for the judicial disciplinary agency he will head.

JQC Chairman Lester Tate on Friday announced the hire, effective Sept. 1, of Hiawassee attorney Mark Dehler. Dehler has spent the last year serving as the special master in the State Bar of Georgia’s ethics complaint against House Speaker David Ralston.

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