David E. Nahmias, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, will join the Firm as a partner based in the Atlanta Office. He will lead the Investigations & White Collar Defense team in Atlanta while also working with the Firm’s Issues & Appeals Practice.
Mr. Nahmias served as a Justice on Georgia’s highest court for almost 13 years, during which time he wrote more than 470 opinions and joined more than 2,700 others. He was appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court by then-Governor Sonny Perdue in 2009, won two statewide nonpartisan elections to six-year terms, served as Presiding Justice from 2018-2021, and became Chief Justice in July 2021. He resigned from the Supreme Court effective July 17, 2022. In 2012, then-Justice Nahmias was appointed by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for a six-year term on the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Civil Rules.
Prior to his appointment to the state Supreme Court, Mr. Nahmias spent nearly 15 years with the U.S. Department of Justice. He started as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta, handling numerous significant fraud, public corruption, and domestic terrorism cases and trying nine jury trials as lead counsel. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Nahmias served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General and then Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at Main Justice, overseeing the Counterterrorism, Fraud, and Appellate Sections. In 2004, he was nominated by President Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, overseeing all of that large district’s criminal and civil cases for almost five years before going on the bench. Mr. Nahmias also served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and chaired the AGAC’s White…
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