District Attorney Mulholland elected to State Bar of Georgia Board of Governors
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ATLANTA – South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney Joseph K. Mulholland has been elected to serve on the Board of Governors of the 55,000-member State Bar of Georgia. He was installed June 8.
Mulholland will serve in the South Georgia Judicial Circuit, Post 1 seat on the board, representing Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Grady and Mitchell counties. He earned his law degree from the Georgia State University College of Law and was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 2001. Mulholland was elected in 2004 as the youngest district attorney in Georgia history at the age of 27.
He prosecuted the first predatory loan case in Georgia that removed companies preying on the elderly, persons of color and military personnel. He has taken the lead on prosecution and drafting laws on many subjects including scrap metal, human trafficking and dog fighting. He has tried more major felony cases than any other elected prosecutor in the last 20 years. Before his election as district attorney, Mulholland worked for Justice Harris Hines of the Supreme Court of Georgia and the Bankruptcy Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Board of Governors is the 160-member policymaking authority of the State Bar, with representation from each of Georgia’s judicial circuits. The board holds regular meetings at least four times per year.
The State Bar of Georgia, with offices in Atlanta, Savannah and Tifton, was established in 1964 by the Supreme Court of Georgia as the successor to the Georgia Bar Association, founded in 1884. All lawyers licensed to practice in Georgia belong to the State Bar. Its approximately 55,000 members work together to strengthen the constitutional promise of justice for all, promote principles of duty and public service among Georgia’s lawyers, and administer a strict code of legal ethics.
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