Georgia Governor Kemp Announces Three Appointments to State Court Benches
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced three appointments to the State Court of Cobb County: Judge Ashley J. Palmer moves from Division II to Division I, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Jane P. Manning; Cobb County Magistrate Court Judge Mellori E. Lumpkin-Dawson was named to Division II; and Marietta attorney D. Austin Gillis was appointed to a second Division II seat, filling the vacancy from the resignation of Judge Marsha S. Lake.
Judge Palmer was first appointed to Division II in June 2021 and earned both her undergraduate and law degrees from Vanderbilt University. Judge Lumpkin-Dawson, a Bainbridge native living in Smyrna, was appointed to the Magistrate Court in 2024, graduated from Florida A&M University and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Georgia beginning in 2018. Gillis is a Cobb County native and lifelong Marietta resident with about 20 years in private practice, educated at Oglethorpe University and the University of Georgia School of Law.
State courts in Georgia are courts of limited jurisdiction handling misdemeanor cases and certain civil matters. The appointments complete the bench for both divisions of the Cobb County State Court.
(Source: Office of the Governor of Georgia)
Source: Office of the Governor of Georgia
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