The long-building chorus of calls for judicial diversity on Georgia’s appellate courts has reached a crescendo at Gov. Nathan Deal’s desk.
At the top of the stack of work there, figuratively and possibly literally, sit 73 pages of applications, questionnaires and letters of recommendations for three finalists to fill the next opening: the job of Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Herbert Phipps. After a 45-year career as a civil rights lawyer, a trial judge and an appellate judge, Phipps is about to turn 75, the age at which the state’s judges must retire or forfeit their pensions.
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