Governor Nathan Deal’s Judicial Nominating Commission has received 55 nominations so far for the Court of Appeals seat to be vacated in January by Judge A. Harris Adams.

Several of the names have appeared on previous judicial nominee lists. Those that made past appellate shortlists are Macon Superior Court Judge Tilman “Trip” Self III, State Bar of Georgia Past President Kenneth Shigley, Henry County State Court Chief Judge Benjamin Studdard III.

The JNC will accept names through the end of business Nov. 5 and will interview applicants after Dec. 3.

Adams, 64, announced in late August that he will retire effective Jan. 1 after a decade on the appellate court. His term ends at the close of 2016.

This will be Deal’s fifth appellate appointment since he took office in January 2011. Deal appointed to the appeals court Judge Michael Boggs, a Waycross Circuit Superior Court judge, in December 2011 to replace Judge J.D. Smith, who retired. Eighteen candidates interviewed with the JNC for the post, and the commission sent six names to the governor.

This summer Deal tapped Judges William Ray II, a Gwinnett County Superior Court judge, and Elizabeth Branch, a former Bush administration lawyer, to the appeals court. They replaced appeals court Judges Keith Blackwell, whom Deal appointed to
the state Supreme Court in June, and Charles Mikell, who retired for health reasons. The JNC vetted about 40 candidates for those two openings and recommended a combined shortlist of seven candidates.

Nominations may be sent by mail to JNC c/o Dana McGuire, 600 Peachtree St. N.E., Suite 5200, Atlanta, GA 30308-2216; fax to (404) 962-6919; or email to dana.mcguire@troutmansanders.com.

We will post the full list after the deadline. (The list of everyone nominated may include some lawyers whose names were submitted by well-wishers, but the lawyers themselves are not interested in the post.)

The nomination list from the JNC as of 10 a.m. today includes:

Catherine Salinas Acree

Virgil Adams

Wayne R. Allen

Alison Kyler Arce

Alissa C. Atkins

Jeffrey Bashuk

David S. Beale

Deborah C. Benefield

Ernest Blount

Charles Bridgers

Manley Brown

Sewell R. Brumby

W. Sander Callahan

Dan Thomas Carter

Michael C. Clark

Charles C. Cork, III

Arthur J. Creque

David Darden

Antonio DelCampo

Chris Edwards

Jason (Jay) Fisher

Angela Marie Garland

Don P. Geary

Stephen Goss

R. William Graham

Reuben Green

Thomas D. HarperLorraine Sanchez Hayes

Joshua E. Kight

Gerard B. Kleinrock

Leslie Klemperer

J. Pope Langstaff

Hugh J. Lanier

Jeannette Little

D. Todd Markle

Richard Marks

Doug McKillip

Garret W. Meader

Larry B. Mims

Larae Dixon Moore

Ashley Phillips Purcell

Latonya Moore Raston

Richard Read

Tilman E. Self

Kenneth L. Shigley

Lamar Sizemore

D. Jay Stewart

Benjamin Studdard

Wes Tailor

Kathryn Tanksley

Jason Brian Von Berman

Nathan J. Wade

Thomas Leland Walker

R. Christina “Chris” Wall

Lyle G. Warshauer

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