The ethics commission seems to be a study in NOT ethical... but due process should start there.
Anyone up for digging dirt on these guys?
http://www.ethics.ga.gov/EthicsWeb/references/bio/chair.aspx<snip>
Mr. Williams was appointed to the Commission in 2003 by Governor Sonny Perdue. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Commission and previously served as the Vice Chairman. He is a partner in the law firm of Powell Goldstein, LLP. His practice focuses on complex civil litigation, products liability and internal corporate investigations.
Mr. Williams began his legal career at King & Spalding in 1989, after graduating form the University of Michigan Law School. From 1995 to 2000, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and he thereafter returned to King & Spalding as a litigation partner before joining Powell Goldstein in February 2006
http://www.ethics.ga.gov/EthicsWeb/references/bio/vchair.aspx<snip>
Mr. Farrow was appointed to the Commission in 2003 by Governor Sonny Perdue. He served as the Chairman of the Commission from 2005-2006, currently serves as the Vice Chairman. He is a partner in the law firm of Minor Bell & Neal. His practice focuses in the areas of medical malpractice defense, civil litigation, workers’ compensation defense, and domestic relations.
Mr. Farrow earned his Jurist Doctor from the University of Georgia in 1982 and began his career at the firm of Little & Adams till 1985, when he joined Minor, Bell & Neal. From 1995-1998, he represented Northwest Georgia in Georgia State Senate. He served as the Murray County attorney from 1993-1998, as the city attorney for the Fort Oglethorpe from 1994-2001, and as the attorney for the Town of Resaca in 2002. He is currently representing the City of Chickamauga, the City of Ringgold, and the City of Rossville.
He is a member of the Conasauga Bar Association, the Georgia Defense Attorneys Association, the Defense Research Institute, the Board of the Dalton Education Foundation, and the Dalton State College Foundation. He has served on the Advisory Committee on Legislation on the State Bar Association, the Federal Northern District Advisory Board, the Executive Board of the Dalton-Whitfield Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Directors of the Dalton Rotary Club, and the State Civil War Commission.
http://www.ethics.ga.gov/EthicsWeb/references/bio/comm1.aspx<snip>
Major General Bowers, USA Retired, was appointed to the Commission in 2003 by Governor Sonny Perdue. He is associated with Murray M. Webb & Associates.
Major General Bowers served in the United States Armed Forces for over thirty-three years (marines and Army). He commanded the Army Troop Service Agency, Defense Personnel Support Center, served as Deputy Director of Defense Logistics Agency. He served in Vietnam as a battalion commander with Ninth Infantry Division, and as a platoon leader with the Second Infantry Division, in Korea and in World War II as a Marine. His military decorations include, among others, the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
He graduated from Mercer University and earned a MBA from the University of Alabama. His military schooling includes the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Army Command and General Staff College and Quartermaster and Artillery Schools.
Major General Bowers has served as Chairman of Finance, Porterfield UMC, Director of the Flint District BSA, and President of Albany Kiwanis, and as a member of the Board of the American Cancer Society
http://www.ethics.ga.gov/EthicsWeb/references/bio/comm2.aspx<snip>
Mr. Jordan was appointed by the Senate Committee on Assignments in 2006. He is a partner in the law firm of Alston & Bird LLP. He specializes in complex commercial litigation, government and internal corporate investigations, corporate ethics and compliance matters, and antitrust law.
Mr. Jordan received a Jurist Doctor in 1995 from Emory University School of Law and began his career at Alston & Bird, LLP. From 1999-2001, he was the Associate General Counsel and then General Counsel for the Georgia Republican Party. In 2000, he was appointed as the Deputy Counsel to the Special Committee for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by the Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court. From 2001-2003, Mr. Jordan was an appointee to the US Department of Justice, where he served as the Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division and then as the Senior Counsel to the Associate Attorney General. Thereafter he returned to Alston & Bird, LLP in 2004.
He is a Board member and former President of the Atlanta Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society and presently is part of the group’s National Practitioners Advisor Council, a member of the Legal Advisory Board for the Southeastern Legal Foundation, and a member of the Board of Families First.
http://www.ethics.ga.gov/EthicsWeb/references/bio/comm3.aspx<snip>
Mr. Watson was appointed to the Commission in 2005 by the Speaker of the House, former Speaker Terry Coleman. He is the Chairman of the Middle Georgia Community Action Agency, Inc. and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of CB&T Bank of Middle Georgia, and a member of the Houston County Hospital Authority. Also, he is an active member of the Robins Museum of Aviation Board of Directors.
Mr. Watson is a graduate of the Georgia Military College in Milledgeville and Mercer University in Macon.
Mr. Watson was Chairman and CEO of EMBECO, Inc, an insurance general agency with annual sales of $63,000,000.00, from 1992 till 2000. Prior to joining EMBECO, Inc., Mr. Watson was President and CEO of Watson Insurance Agency, Inc.
He was a member of the Georgia Legislature for 22 years, where Mr. Watson served as the Chairman of the House Industry Committee. He has also served as an Administer of Houston County, Georgia, for 17 years.
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