Larry Dean Thompson is an American lawyer and law professor,who served as deputy Attorney General of the United States under United States President George W. Bush until August 2003.
Griffin Boyette Bell was the 72nd Attorney General of the United States,having served under President Jimmy Carter. Previously,he was a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
George Dekle Busbee Sr.,was an American politician who served as the 77th governor of Georgia from 1975 to 1983.
Roy Eugene Barnes is an American attorney and politician who served as the 80th governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003. As of 2024,he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Georgia.
Ellis Gibbs Arnall was an American politician who served as the 69th Governor of Georgia from 1943 to 1947. A liberal Democrat,he helped lead efforts to abolish the poll tax and to reduce Georgia's voting age to 18. Following his departure from office,he became a highly successful attorney and businessman.
Bruce Robert Jacob is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida during the early 1960s. He represented Louie L. Wainwright,the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections,in the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright,decided in March 1963,regarding the right to counsel of indigent defendants in non-capital felony cases in state courts. The attorney representing the Petitioner,Clarence Gideon,was Abe Fortas,a Washington,D.C. lawyer who later became a Justice of the Supreme Court. The previous 1942 Supreme Court case of Betts v. Brady required the appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant at state expense if there was a “special circumstance”present in the case which made it necessary for counsel to be provided for the defendant to receive a fair trial. For example,if the defendant was indigent and was extremely young,or lacked education or experience,was unfamiliar with court procedures,or if the charges against him were complex,the trial court was required under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to appoint counsel. Jacob argued against any extension of the defendant's right to counsel. The Court in Gideon overruled Betts and required state courts to appoint attorneys for defendants in all felony prosecutions.
William Carlton Mobley was a noted jurist and politician from the American state of Georgia. He is one of the ten youngest people to ever be elected to the United States House of Representatives,at the age of 25.
Mercer University School of Law is the law school of Mercer University. Founded in 1873,it is one of the oldest law schools in the United States;the first law school accredited by the bar in Georgia,and the second oldest of Mercer's 12 colleges and schools. The School of Law has approximately 440 students and is located in Macon,Georgia on its own campus one mile (1.6 km) from Mercer's main campus. The law school building,one of Macon's most recognizable sites,is a three-story partial replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and is located on Coleman Hill overlooking downtown Macon. According to Mercer's official 2020 ABA-required disclosures,72% of the Class of 2020 obtained full-time,long-term,JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
Thomas Campbell Clark was an American lawyer who served as the 59th United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967.
Kenneth (Ken) B. Hodges III is a judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals. He also served as Dougherty County District Attorney and later ran as the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Georgia in 2010. In 2015,Hodges started his own law firm,Ken Hodges Law,based out of Atlanta and Albany. In 2018,he won an open seat in a contested race on the Georgia Court of Appeals,earning nearly 70% of the statewide vote.
The Atlanta Law School was a private,night law school for working professionals and others seeking a legal education. The school's faculty members were practicing lawyers and judges from across the state of Georgia. The school began in 1890 and closed its doors in 1994. It was accredited by the Georgia Board of Bar Examiners. Today the school continues as a scholarship fund for those students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to practice law.
Horace Elmo Nichols,also known as H. E. "Nick" Nichols,was an American jurist in Georgia who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1975 to 1980.
Charles William Worrill was a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1953 to 1954.
John Eccleston Frankum was a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1967 to 1970.
Thomas Grady Head was the 42nd Attorney General of Georgia from 1943 to 1945,and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1945 to 1965.
William Augustus Little was a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1897 to 1903.
Thomas Julian Webb was a member of the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1974. He was also a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals from 1974 to 1979.
Verda M. Colvin is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Arthur Key Bolton (1922–1997) was the Attorney General of Georgia from 1965 through 1981. During his time as attorney general,he represented the state in a case challenging Georgia's abortion laws,Doe v. Bolton,which was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on the same day as another more famous abortion case,Roe v. Wade. Bolton also served as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1949 to 1965 and Judge of the Criminal Court of Griffin from 1952 to 1965.
