A top state ethics official and a prosecutor in the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis are among three judges appointed to the county’s highest court by Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday.
David Emadi, the executive secretary of the State Ethics Commission, takes the Fulton County Superior Court seat vacated by Jane Barwick when she retired earlier this year.
Nikia Smith Sellers, a Fulton prosecutor who ousted incumbent Superior Court Judge Paige Reese Whitaker in a nonpartisan election last month, has been appointed to fill the vacancy created when Kemp subsequently appointed Whitaker to the Georgia Court of Appeals…