2021 Executive Orders
Here you will find Governor Kemp's executive orders. These orders are legal instruments by which Governor Kemp carries out the duties of his office.
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Appointing the Honorable Laci Dawn Gillis as a member of the Division of Family and Children Services State Advisory Board | |
| Appointing the Honorable Kevin Lee Hayes as a member of the Middle Chattahoochee Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jennifer Pennington as a member of the Georgia Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Tony Marshall as a member of the Georgia Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Allan Levey as a member of the Georgia Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Lynn Ross as a member of the Georgia Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Donna Little Morgan as a member of the Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council | |
| Authorizing the demolition and removal of a building from Valdosta State University | |
| Appointing members to the review commission to investigate charges against City of Nashville Mayor Taylor Scarbrough | |
| Lowering flags to half-staff on Thursday, March 4, 2021, in honor and memory of Captain Justin Williams Bedwell of the Decatur County Sheriff's Office | |
| Appointing the Honorable Clarence Cuthpert, Jr. as Judge of the State Court of Rockdale County | |
| Appointing the Honorable Allyson Laurel Christianson as a member of the Division of Family and Children Services State Advisory Board | |
| Appointing the Honorable Randel Miltiades Hambrick as a member of the Division of Family and Children Services State Advisory Board | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Tommy Hill as a member of the Division of Family and Children Services State Advisory Board | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Meredith Holt as a member of the Division of Family and Children Services State Advisory Board | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Belva Dorsey as a member of the Division of Family and Children Services State Advisory Board | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Octavia Fugerson as a member of the Division of Family and Children Services State Advisory Board | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Delaine Hunter as a member of the Division of Family and Children Services State Advisory Board | |
| Appointing the Honorable Robert Thomas Horton as a member of the Georgia Firefighter Standards and Training Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Tim Stowers as a member of the Georgia Firefighter Standards and Training Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Cory Ruth as a member of the Georgia Technology Authority | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Laura Whitaker as a member of the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Lasa Joiner as a member of the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Carol Babcock as a member of the Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Tammie Quest as a member of the Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Trina Renee Wilson as a member of the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jinger Beth Robins as a member of the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Lisa Y. Kinnemore as a member of the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Randal Matthew McGinley as a member of the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Carolyn J. Altman as a member of the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Thomas Brittan Hammond as a member of the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Jonathan Eisenstat as a member of the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Charles Prescott as a member of the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel | |
| Reappointing members to the Coastal Georgia Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Appointing members to the Coastal Georgia Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Reappointing members to the Lower Flint-Ochlockonee Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Appointing members to the Lower Flint-Ochlockonee Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Reappointing members to the Middle Chattahoochee Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Appointing members to the Middle Chattahoochee Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Reappointing members to the Upper Flint Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Appointing members to the Upper Flint Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Reappointing members to the Coosa-North Georgia Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Appointing members to the Coosa-North Georgia Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Reappointing members to the Savannah-Upper Ogeechee Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Appointing members to the Savannah-Upper Ogeechee Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Renewing the Public Health State of Emergency last renewed on January 29, 2021, in response to COVID-19 | |
| Providing additional guidance for Empowering a Healthy Georgia in response to COVID-19 | |
| Appointing the Honorable Quintress J. Gilbert as Senior Judge of the Juvenile Courts of Georgia | |
| Suspending Mr. Donald Richard “Dick” Donovan from office as District Attorney of the Paulding Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Nancy N. Bills as Superior Court Judge of the Rockdale Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Rosemary M. Greene as Superior Court Judge of the Cherokee Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Richard L. “Dick” Perryman III as Superior Court Judge of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jesse C. Stone as Superior Court Judge of the Augusta Judicial Circuit | |
| Regarding the appointment of Kelsey Finn as a member of the State Records Committee | |
| Providing additional guidance for Empowering a Healthy Georgia in response to COVID-19 | |
| Delaying the opening of State offices on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 | |
| Appointing the Honorable Ted Maxwell Rumley as a member of the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Laurel Lynne Hart as a member of the McPherson Implementing Local Redevelopment Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Clayton Wayne McKinnon Sr as a member of the State Water Well Standards Advisory Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Sarah Yvonne Vinson as a member of the Juvenile Justice State Advisory Group | |
| Appointing the Honorable William Braxton Shanks as a member of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Kelsey Finn as member of the State Records Committee | |
| Appointing the Honorable Kristyn Long as a member of the State Records Committee | |
| Renewing the State of Emergency last renewed on January 11, 2021, regarding unlawful assemblage and the threat of violence and property damage | |
| Lowering flags to half-staff in honor and memory of FBI Special Agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger | |
| Appointing the Honorable George G. Andrews as a member of the Private Colleges and Universities Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Terryal Denise Downer-McKinney as a member of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council | |
| Authorizing a transfer from the Governor’s Emergency Fund | |
| Appointing the Honorable Susan P. Tate as Senior Judge of the Probate Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Hal E. Hamrick as Senior Judge of the Probate Courts of Georgia | |
| Renewing the Public Health State of Emergency last renewed on December 30, 2020, in response to COVID-19 | |
| Providing additional guidance for Empowering a Healthy Georgia in response to COVID-19 | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Michael Malihi as Chief State Administrative Law Judge | |
| Appointing Mr. Claiborne (Clay) W. Davis III to fill the temporary vacancy in the office of Spalding County District 5 Commissioner | |
| Reappointing the Honorable William C. Joy as a member of the Certificate of Need Appeal Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Savannah Venice Abbott as a member of the Statewide Independent Living Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Timothy Keith Cartledge as a member of the Statewide Independent Living Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Danny Hurshel Housley as a member of the Statewide Independent Living Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Juan Alberto Maitland as a member of the Statewide Independent Living Council | |
| Appointing members to the Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee | |
| Appointing members to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Overview Committee | |
| Approving the issuance of single-family mortgage bonds | |
| Appointing the Honorable Thomas “Mike” Phelps, Jr. as a member of the State Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors | |
| Appointing the Honorable Michael Robert Crane as a member of the State Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors | |
| Appointing the Honorable James Edmund Kitchens as a member of the Board of Community Supervision | |
| Appointing the Honorable James Richard Lientz, Jr. as a member of the Private Colleges and Universities Authority | |
| Lowering flags to half-staff in honor and memory of Hank Aaron | |
| Appointing Ms. Sara Hamilton as Special Master | |
| Expanding personnel permitted to administer vaccinations to support the response to COVID-19 | |
| Appointing Mr. Jeffrey Reese Davis as Special Counsel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Thomas C. Bobbitt III as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Magistrates Retirement Fund of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Alton Laman Lawson as a member of the Georgia Auctioneers Commission | |
| Appointing the Honorable Eric Ray Burrell as a member of the Georgia Student Finance Commission | |
| Appointing the Honorable Randy L. Dellinger as a member of the Board of Natural Resources | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jerrold Lewis Page as a member of the State Board of Registration of Used Car Dealers and Used Motor Vehicle Parts Dealers | |
| Appointing the Honorable Todd Martin Tolbert as a member of the State Board of Accountancy | |
| Appointing Mr. Charles Peeler as Special Counsel | |
| Appointing Ms. Holly Pierson as Special Counsel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Margaret Ellen Heap as a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles | |
| Providing additional guidance for Empowering a Healthy Georgia in response to COVID-19 | |
| Appointing the Honorable David Joseph Cyr as a member of the Georgia Ports Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Don Anthony Grantham, Sr. as a member of the Georgia Ports Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Alec Loyd Poitevint, II as a member of the Georgia Ports Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Christopher Clarence Womack as a member of the Georgia Ports Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jake Albert Futch as a member of the Georgia State Board of Funeral Service | |
| Appointing the Honorable Stephen Branson Adams as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Linda P. McWhorter as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Georgia Student Finance Commission | |
| Appointing the Honorable Timothy Wayne Trotter as a member of the State Construction Licensing Board, Division of Low-voltage Contractors | |
| Appointing the Honorable Staci McNeely Kennedy as a member of the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators | |
| Appointing the Honorable Shanna Boss Dupree as a member of the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators | |
| Appointing the Honorable Barbara Byron Mitchell as a member of the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators | |
| Appointing the Honorable Mark Shane Mobley as a member of the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators | |
| Appointing the Honorable Edward “Chap” Nelson III as a member of the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators | |
| Appointing the Honorable Kimberly Ann Pitsenbarger as a member of the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators | |
| Appointing the Honorable Bryan Vincent Hunter as a member of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Daniel Edwin Rampey as a member of the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators | |
| Lowering flags to half-staff on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, in honor of United States Capitol Police Officers Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood | |
| Appointing Special Counsel to represent certain members of the Judicial Qualifications Commission | |
| Renewing the State of Emergency originally issued on July 6, 2020, regarding unlawful assemblage and the threat of violence and property damage | |
| Appointing the Honorable Shawn Ellen LaGrua as Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia | |
| Permitting Emergency Medical Technicians-Intermediates, Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians, and Cardiac Technicians to administer vaccinations to support the response to COVID-19 | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Julianne C. Busbee as a member of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors | |
| Reappointing the Honorable L. Dan Davis as a member of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors | |
| Reappointing the Honorable L. Russell Pennington as a member of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Elmo Richardson as a member of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Darien M. Sykes as a member of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors | |
| Reappointing the Honorable William Womack as a member of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Taylor Wright as a member of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Neil S. Wyche as a member of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors | |
| Appointing the Honorable Patricia J. Brown as a member of the Georgia Auctioneers Commission | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Craig R. Buckley as a member of the Georgia State Board of Architects and Interior Designers | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Melissa Cantrell as a member of the Georgia State Board of Architects and Interior Designers | |
| Reappointing the Honorable David M.G. Maschke as a member of the Georgia State Board of Architects and Interior Designers | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Anne K. Smith as a member of the Georgia State Board of Architects and Interior Designers | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Don Anthony Grantham, Jr. as a member of the Georgia Student Finance Commission | |
| Appointing the Honorable Stanley Wade DeJarnett as a member of the State Board of Education | |
| Appointing the Honorable Matthew Wilson Donaldson as a member of the State Board of Education | |
| Appointing the Honorable James F. Bass, Jr. as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable J. Bryant Durham, Jr. as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable S. Lark Ingram as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable William A. Prior, Jr. as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable J. Stephen Schuster as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Clarence F. Seeliger as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable John Doran as Senior Judge of the State Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable H. Gregory Fowler as Senior Judge of the State Courts of Georgia |