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February 9, 2012

Blevins gets nod as new judge

Mark Millican markmillican@daltoncitizen.com

Dalton attorney David Blevins was picked by Gov. Nathan Deal to fill the unexpired term of retired Superior Court Judge Robert Adams, one of the other nominees for the seat reported late Wednesday.

Assistant District Attorney Scott Minter wrote in a text message to a newspaper reporter that the governor’s office called him late in the day to say Blevins had been chosen. Blevins did not immediately return a phone call Wednesday evening.

“I would just congratulate David Blevins on his selection as Superior Court judge and I’ll do anything I can to ease his transition into that job,” Minter said on Wednesday evening.

The other finalist on the “short list” of three nominees, area attorney Celeste Creswell, did not immediately return a phone call Wednesday evening.

The interviews by Deal were moved up a week to Wednesday when room opened up in his schedule, but a spokeswoman said earlier this week that typically it takes the governor at least a week to name the appointee.

Blevins, who said he was the “county chair” for Deal’s gubernatorial campaign in 2010, will not have to run for election, if he so chooses, until 2014. Since Adams waited until Jan. 31 to retire, it cut into a time frame provision in the state Constitution that there be at least six months between the date of the governor’s appointment to a judge’s unexpired term and the summertime election for Superior Court judges — which this year falls on Georgia’s presidential primary on July 31.

Blevins was asked in late January if his role in Deal’s campaign might be looked upon favorably by the governor when he makes a decision.

“Obviously, I guess the governor had confidence in me for that, so I assume that he would know some of my work,” he said at the time. “But I also know that the governor is an extremely fair-minded and a very thorough guy. Some of the reasons I’m for him (is) he is just a good governor, he tries to do the right thing, and that’s why I campaigned for him.”

Blevins’ website states that he specializes in wrongful death, personal injury, estate litigation and commercial litigation law. He is the husband of Probate Court Judge Sheri Blevins.

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