Commissioner
Gates Peed serves as a Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia. He had been a Superior Court judge in the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit – which includes the courts in Bulloch, Effingham, Jenkins, and Screven counties – for 23 years, since first being elected in 2000. He became chief judge of the circuit Aug. 1, 2018, upon the retirement of former Chief Judge William E. Woodrum Jr.
Prior to becoming a Superior Court judge, Peed was first solicitor general and then judge of the Bulloch County State Court. He attained a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia in 1976 and went on to Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor in 1982.
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