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| Name | Position | Term Expires |
|---|---|---|
| Hon. Carson Dane Perkins | Alapaha Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Thomas C. Chambers, III | Alapaha Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Mr. Steven A. Hathorn | Alcovy Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Michael R. Jones, Sr. | Alcovy Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Mr. Will H. Pickett, Jr. | Appalachian Circuit | 2013 |
| Judge Diane E. Bessen | Atlanta Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Brian DeVoe Rogers | Atlanta Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Ms. Whitney Diane Mauk | Atlanta Circuit, Post 3 | 2013 |
| Mr. Jeffrey Ray Kuester | Atlanta Circuit, Post 4 | 2014 |
| Ms. Catherine Koura | Atlanta Circuit, Post 5 | 2013 |
| Mr. Dwight L. Thomas | Atlanta Circuit, Post 6 | 2014 |
| Mr. William M. Ragland, Jr. | Atlanta Circuit, Post 7 | 2013 |
| Mr. Kenneth Bryant Hodges, III | Atlanta Circuit, Post 8 | 2014 |
| Mr. Damon Erik Elmore | Atlanta Circuit, Post 9 | 2013 |
| Mr. Myles E. Eastwood | Atlanta Circuit, Post 10 | 2014 |
| Ms. Jill Pryor | Atlanta Circuit, Post 11 | 2013 |
| Ms. Elena Kaplan | Atlanta Circuit, Post 12 | 2014 |
| Ms. Emily S. Bair | Atlanta Circuit, Post 13 | 2013 |
| Mr. Edward B. Krugman | Atlanta Circuit, Post 14 | 2014 |
| Ms. Letitia A. McDonald | Atlanta Circuit, Post 15 | 2013 |
| Ms. Dawn M. Jones | Atlanta Circuit, Post 16 | 2014 |
| Ms. Rita Arlene Sheffey | Atlanta Circuit, Post 17 | 2013 |
| Mr. Foy R. Devine | Atlanta Circuit, Post 18 | 2014 |
| Ms. Elizabeth Louise Fite | Atlanta Circuit, Post 19 | 2013 |
| Mr. William V. Custer, IV | Atlanta Circuit, Post 20 | 2014 |
| Ms. Patricia Anne Gorham | Atlanta Circuit, Post 21 | 2013 |
| Mr. Frank B. Strickland | Atlanta Circuit, Post 22 | 2014 |
| Ms. Donna G. Barwick | Atlanta Circuit, Post 23 | 2013 |
| Mr. Joseph Anthony Roseborough | Atlanta Circuit, Post 24 | 2014 |
| Ms. Phyllis J. Holmen | Atlanta Circuit, Post 25 | 2013 |
| Mr. Anthony B. Askew | Atlanta Circuit, Post 26 | 2014 |
| Ms. Nancy Jean Whaley | Atlanta Circuit, Post 27 | 2013 |
| Mr. J. Henry Walker, IV | Atlanta Circuit, Post 28 | 2014 |
| Ms. Tina Shadix Roddenbery | Atlanta Circuit, Post 29 | 2013 |
| Ms. Karlise Yvette Grier | Atlanta Circuit, Post 30 | 2013 |
| Mr. Michael Brian Terry | Atlanta Circuit, Post 31 | 2014 |
| Mr. Seth David Kirschenbaum | Atlanta Circuit, Post 32 | 2013 |
| Ms. S. Kendall Butterworth | Atlanta Circuit, Post 33 | 2014 |
| Ms. Allegra J. Lawrence | Atlanta Circuit, Post 34 | 2013 |
| Mr. Terrence Lee Croft | Atlanta Circuit, Post 35 | 2014 |
| Mr. J. Marcus Edward Howard | Atlanta Circuit, Post 36 | 2013 |
| Mr. Samuel M. Matchett | Atlanta Circuit, Post 37 | 2014 |
| Mr. Michael Dickinson Hobbs, Jr. | Atlanta Circuit, Post 38 | 2014 |
| Ms. Anita Wallace Thomas | Atlanta Circuit, Post 39 | 2013 |
| Ms. Carol V. Clark | Atlanta Circuit, Post 40 | 2014 |
| Mr. H. Craig Stafford | Atlantic Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Carl Robert Varnedoe | Atlantic Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Edward J. Coleman, III | Augusta Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. William James Keogh, III | Augusta Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Mr. Thomas Reuben Burnside, III | Augusta Circuit, Post 3 | 2013 |
| Mr. William R. McCracken | Augusta Circuit, Post 4 | 2014 |
| Hon. Philip C. Smith | Bell Forsyth Circuit | 2014 |
| Mr. David Lee Cannon, Jr. | Blue Ridge Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Eric Alvin Ballinger | Blue Ridge Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. J. Alvin Leaphart | Brunswick Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Jeffrey S. Ward | Brunswick Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Ms. Gwyn P. Newsom | Chattahoochee Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Hon. William C. Rumer | Chattahoochee Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Thomas Frederick Gristina | Chattahoochee Circuit, Post 3 | 2014 |
| Ms. Donna Stanaland Hix | Chattahoochee Circuit, Post 4 | 2013 |
| Mr. Randall H. Davis | Cherokee Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Thomas Neal Brunt | Cherokee Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Ms. H. Emily George | Clayton Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Harold B. Watts | Clayton Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Mr. Martin L. Cowen, III | Clayton Circuit, Post 3 | 2013 |
| Mr. Dennis C. O'Brien | Cobb Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Ronald Arthur Lowry | Cobb Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Hon. David P. Darden | Cobb Circuit, Post 3 | 2014 |
| Mr. Patrick H. Head | Cobb Circuit, Post 4 | 2013 |
| Hon. J. Stephen Schuster | Cobb Circuit, Post 5 | 2014 |
| Mr. J. Kevin Moore | Cobb Circuit, Post 6 | 2013 |
| Mr. William C. Gentry | Cobb Circuit, Post 7 | 2014 |
| Mr. Terry Leighton Miller | Conasauga Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Robert Harris Smalley, III | Conasauga Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. James W. Hurt | Cordele Circuit | 2013 |
| Mr. Gerald P. Word | Coweta Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Ms. Sandra Nadeau Wisenbaker | Coweta Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Joseph West Dent | Dougherty Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Hon. Gordon Robert Zeese | Dougherty Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Kenneth Ray Bernard, Jr. | Douglas Circuit | 2014 |
| Mr. Edward Burton Claxton, III | Dublin Circuit | 2013 |
| Ms. Sarah Brown Akins | Eastern Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Lester B. Johnson, III | Eastern Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Patrick T. O'Connor | Eastern Circuit, Post 3 | 2014 |
| Mr. N. Harvey Weitz | Eastern Circuit, Post 4 | 2013 |
| Mr. Steven Keith Leibel | Enotah Circuit | 2014 |
| Mr. Gregory A. Futch | Flint Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. John Philip Webb | Flint Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Ms. Janice Marie Wallace | Griffin Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Roy B. Huff, Jr. | Griffin Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. David S. Lipscomb | Gwinnett Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Ms. Judy C. King | Gwinnett Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Hon. Robert V. Rodatus | Gwinnett Circuit, Post 3 | 2013 |
| Mr. Gerald Davidson, Jr. | Gwinnett Circuit, Post 4 | 2014 |
| Mr. Carl A. Veline, Jr. | Houston Circuit | 2014 |
| Mr. Archibald A. Farrar, Jr. | Lookout Mountain Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Douglas Ray Woodruff | Lookout Mountain Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Lawrence Alan Stagg | Lookout Mountain Circuit, Post 3 | 2014 |
| Mr. John Flanders Kennedy | Macon Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Thomas W. Herman | Macon Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Mr. John Christopher Clark | Macon Circuit, Post 3 | 2013 |
| Ms. Kathleen M. Womack | Member-at-Large, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Derek Jerome White | Member-at-Large, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Jeffery O'Neal Monroe | Member-at-Large, Post 3 | 2014 |
| Mr. John Kendall Gross | Middle Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. John Alexander Fitzner, III | Middle Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Hon. James T. Irvin | Mountain Circuit | 2013 |
| Mr. Mark William Alexander | Northeastern Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Ms. Nicki Noel Vaughan | Northeastern Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Walter James Gordon, Sr. | Northern Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. R. Chris Phelps | Northern Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Mr. Green Berry Moore, III | Ocmulgee Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Wilson B. Mitcham, Jr. | Ocmulgee Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Christopher Donald Huskins | Ocmulgee Circuit, Post 3 | 2014 |
| Mr. Ashley Wedrell McLaughlin | Oconee Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Ms. Stephanie Diane Burton | Oconee Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Daniel Brent Snipes | Ogeechee Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Ms. Susan Warren Cox | Ogeechee Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Joaquin Eugene Martinez | Out-of-State, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Ralph John Caccia | Out-of-State, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Mr. William Harry Mills | Pataula Circuit | 2013 |
| Mr. Martin Enrique Valbuena | Paulding Circuit | 2014 |
| Mr. James Bradley Smith | Piedmont Circuit | 2013 |
| Mr. William Gilmore Gainer | Rockdale Circuit | 2014 |
| Mr. Paul T. Carroll, III | Rome Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. J. Anderson Davis | Rome Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Mr. Lawton Chad Heard, Jr. | South Georgia Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Joshua Clark Bell | South Georgia Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Hon. James E. Hardy | Southern Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. Brian Allen McDaniel | Southern Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Mr. Gregory Tyson Talley | Southern Circuit, Post 3 | 2014 |
| Hon. R. Rucker Smith | Southwestern Circuit | 2013 |
| Ms. Katherine K. Wood | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. William Dixon James | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Hon. J. Antonio DelCampo | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 3 | 2014 |
| Mr. Robert D. James, Jr. | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 4 | 2013 |
| Ms. Amy Viera Howell | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 5 | 2014 |
| Ms. Claudia Susan Saari | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 6 | 2013 |
| Mr. John G. Haubenreich | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 7 | 2014 |
| Ms. R. Javoyne Hicks White | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 8 | 2013 |
| Ms. Sherry Boston | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 9 | 2014 |
| Ms. Andrea Dionne McGee | Stone Mountain Circuit, Post 10 | 2013 |
| Mr. Michael Douglas McRae | Tallapoosa Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Brad Joseph McFall | Tallapoosa Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |
| Hon. Render Max Heard, Jr. | Tifton Circuit | 2014 |
| Mr. Dennis C. Sanders | Toombs Circuit | 2013 |
| Mr. Curtis Stephen Jenkins | Towaliga Circuit | 2013 |
| Mr. Douglass Kirk Farrar | Waycross Circuit, Post 1 | 2014 |
| Mr. C. Deen Strickland | Waycross Circuit, Post 2 | 2013 |
| Hon. Lawton E. Stephens | Western Circuit, Post 1 | 2013 |
| Mr. Edward Donald Tolley | Western Circuit, Post 2 | 2014 |