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Supreme Court of 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站 Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs

VALDOSTA — Michael P. Boggs, chief justice of the Supreme Court of 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站, will discuss “Behavioral Health Issues and the Criminal Justice System” at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 26, in Valdosta State University’s Student Union Theater.

Boggs’s visit to campus is sponsored by 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Admission is free of charge and open to the public.

Former Governor Nathan Deal appointed Boggs to the Supreme Court of 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站 on Dec. 7, 2016. Voters re-elected him to the position in 2018, and his colleagues unanimously elected him chief justice in March 2022.

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Raised in Waycross, Boggs earned his Juris Doctor in 1990 from Mercer University School of Law. He practiced insurance defense litigation in Atlanta before returning to his hometown and starting a general civil trial practice. In 2000 he was elected to the 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站 House of Representatives, where he served on the Judiciary, Public Safety, and Government Affairs committees and as chairman of the Probate Law and Elections Law subcommittees.

In 2004 Boggs was elected Superior Court judge for the six-county Waycross Judicial Circuit, and he founded the Waycross Judicial Circuit Drug Court Program. He served as a member of 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站’s Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform in 2011, as judge of the Court of Appeals of 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站 from 2012-2016, and as co-chairman of the 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站 Criminal Justice Reform Council from 2012 to 2018.