Keith Blackwell | |
Office: | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia |
Appointer: | Nathan Deal |
Term Start: | July 19, 2012 |
Term End: | November 18, 2020 |
Predecessor: | George Carley |
Successor: | Shawn Ellen LaGrua |
Office1: | Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals |
Appointer1: | Sonny Perdue |
Term Start1: | November 1, 2010 |
Term End1: | July 19, 2012 |
Predecessor1: | G. Alan Blackburn |
Successor1: | William M. Ray II |
Birth Date: | 4 July 1975 |
Birth Place: | Cherokee County, Georgia, U.S. |
Education: | University of Georgia (BA, JD) |
Party: | Republican |
Keith Robert Blackwell (born July 4, 1975) is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Blackwell received his Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Georgia in 1996 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1999.
He was a judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals, to which he was appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue on November 1, 2010.[1] He was later named to the Supreme Court of Georgia by Governor Nathan Deal on June 25, 2012.[2] On February 28, 2020, Blackwell announced his intention to resign, effective November 18, 2020.[3]
In September 2016, he was named as a possible Supreme Court of the United States nominee by Donald Trump.[4]
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