Commissioner
Prior to his appointment, he served for five years as District Attorney of the Alcovy Judicial Circuit, a position to which he was elected in 1985. Ott first joined the office as an assistant district attorney after graduating from law school in 1981 and was quickly promoted to chief assistant district attorney the following year.
He received a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia in 1976. Then, after obtaining his teaching certificate in English, Ott spent one year as a teacher in the Bibb County Public School System before completing a J.D. at Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law in 1981.
He was an appointed representative of the Superior Court judges on the State Council for the Interstate Adult Offender Supervision and the County and Municipal Probation Advisory Council. Ott was also chair of the Personnel Committee for the Council of Superior Court Judges (chair) and served as an administrative judge for the Tenth Judicial District of Georgia and on the Executive Council of Superior Court Judges and the Judicial Council of Georgia.
He served on the Walton County Little League Board and was a Little League coach and a Newton County Recreation basketball and football coach.
Ott was born in Macon, Georgia, one of seven children. His father, Bill Ott, was editor of the Macon Telegraph newspaper. The family eventually relocated to Ohio after his father transferred to run the Akron Beacon Journal Newspaper. During their time there, Ott graduated from Woodridge High School in Peninsula, Ohio.
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