ATLANTA - Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed Michael Boggs to the state Court of Appeals. Boggs fills the vacancy created by the retirement of J.D. Smith of Gainesville.
Boggs is a Superior Court judge with the Waycross Judicial Circuit. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2001-04. Boggs serves as a member of the Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform, the Georgia Judicial Nominating Commission, the Judicial Council of Georgia Standing Committee on Accountability Courts, and is the founding director of the Waycross Judicial Circuit Drug Court Program.
He earned his bachelor's degree from Georgia Southern College and law degree from Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law.
He and his wife, Heather, live in Blackshear.