2023 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 |
|---|---|
| Lowering flags to half-staff on Monday, May 29, 2023, until noon, in observance of Memorial Day | |
| Appointing the Honorable Phil D. Miller to fill the temporary vacancy in the office of Douglas County Commission Chairperson | |
| Appointing the Honorable Clarence Ricky Dobbs, Jr. to fill the temporary vacancy in the office of the Douglas County District 1 Commissioner | |
| Establishing and appointing members to the Georgia Opioid Settlement Advisory Commission | |
| Appointing the Honorable Matthew Scott Dubnik as a member of the Southern Regional Education Board | |
| Appointing the Honorable William Rhett Hickman as a member of the Southern Regional Education Board | |
| Appointing the Honorable Delos Harley Yancey, IV as a member of the Board of Natural Resources | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Randall W. Hatcher as a member of the Board of Economic Development | |
| Appointing the Honorable Benjamin Arthur Land as a member of the Georgia Child Support Commission | |
| Lowering flags to half-staff on Monday, May 15, 2023, in observance of Peace Officers Memorial Day | |
| Authorizing the transfer of property in Baldwin County from the Georgia Department of Defense to the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities | |
| Appointing the Honorable Charles Paul Efstration, III as a member of the Georgia Child Support Commission | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Houston Gaines as a member of the Georgia Child Support Commission | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Emanuel Jones as a member of the Georgia Child Support Commission | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Brian Strickland as a member of the Georgia Child Support Commission | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jessica Barrett Martin as Solicitor General of the State Court of Habersham County | |
| Authorizing a transfer from the Governor’s Emergency Fund | |
| Authorizing the demolition and removal of a structure from the Savannah Farmers Market | |
| Appointing the Honorable Mark Wenzel Hennessy as a member of the Board of Natural Resources | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Deborah C. Hibben as a member of the Georgia State Rehabilitation Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Cherise Mlott as a member of the Georgia State Rehabilitation Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Jennifer M. Page as a member of the Georgia State Rehabilitation Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable C. Peggy Venable as a member of the Georgia State Rehabilitation Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Samuel Rocco Verniero, Jr. as a member of the Georgia State Rehabilitation Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Matthew Alexander Barnes as a member of the Georgia State Rehabilitation Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Lisa Leiter as a member of the Georgia State Rehabilitation Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Michele Monique Mason as a member of the Georgia State Rehabilitation Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Myndi Kuhlmann Pryor as a member of the Georgia State Rehabilitation Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Joshua Brebson Whitworth as a member of the Georgia Agricultural Exposition Authority | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Craig R. Buckley as a member of the Georgia State Board of Architects and Interior Designers | |
| Appointing the Honorable Ralph Eddy Raymond as a member of the Georgia State Board of Architects and Interior Designers | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jerry Bruce as a member of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jerry Bruce as a member of the Advisory Board to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Shanna Jackson Sheats as a member of the State Board of Funeral Service | |
| Appointing the Honorable Bradley Blake Anderson as a member of the State Board of Funeral Service | |
| Appointing the Honorable Mike Long as a member of the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Matthew Scott Bergen as a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission Advisory Committee | |
| Appointing the Honorable Lisa Clark McKnight as a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission Advisory Committee | |
| Appointing the Honorable Michael Christopher Rotalsky as a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission Advisory Committee | |
| Appointing the Honorable Karen Viera as chairman of the State Workforce Development Board | |
| Appointing the Honorable William Peavy Fricks, Jr. as a member of the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Billy Grogan as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Billy Hancock as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Alex Lee as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Steve Nichols as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Ted Wynn as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Rhonda Futch Chatham as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Vernica Marie Crockett as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Douglas Frank Jamieson as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Richard Allan Johnson, Jr. as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable Earl Scott Wood as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Appointing the Honorable James Barry Woodward, Sr. as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority | |
| Suspending Dr. Romona Jackson Jones from office as County Commissioner for Douglas County | |
| Suspending from office Mr. Henry Mitchell as County Commissioner for Douglas County | |
| Appointing the Honorable Donald W. Gillis as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Bambi Riley as a member of the Board of Review of the Department of Labor | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Harvey K. Persons, III as a member of the Board of Review of the Department of Labor | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Suzanne Mathis as a member of the Alapaha Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Lynn Doss as a member of the Appalachian Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Jonathan Hawkins as a member of the Atlanta Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Jason Tate as a member of the Atlanta Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Harold Choate, III as a member of the Cherokee Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable J. Stanley Smith, Jr. as a member of the Dublin Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable O. Wendell Horne III as a member of the Macon Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable L. Allyn Stockton, Jr. as a member of the Mountain Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Graham McKinnon IV as a member of the Northeastern Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Gary Gerrard as a member of the Northern Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Robert Alexander, Jr. as a member of the Piedmont Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable James Skipper, Jr. as a member of the Southwestern Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Jeffrey Brickman as a member of the Stone Mountain Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable W. Bryant Swan, Jr. as a member of the Toombs Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Ben Vaughn as a member of the Towaliga Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Ryan Michael Loke as a member of the Georgia Board of Nursing | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Ashlan Durrence Porter as a member of the Georgia Board of Nursing | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Jerry Don Spillers, Jr. as a member of the Georgia Board of Dentistry | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Brent Stiehl as a member of the Georgia Board of Dentistry | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Debra M. Wilson as a member of the Georgia Board of Dentistry | |
| Appointing the Honorable Caylee B. Noggle as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lottery Corporation | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Yi Jeng Lin as a member of the State Properties Commission | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Tracy L. Jordan as a member of the State Board of Examiners for Speech Pathology and Audiology | |
| Reappointing the Honorable David Perez as a member of the Georgia Student Finance Commission Board of Commissioners | |
| Appointing the Honorable Charles Austin Gower, Jr. as a member of the Chattahoochee Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Falen O’Neal Cox as a member of the Eastern Circuit Public Defender Supervisory Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Lawton C. Heard, Jr. as Judge of the Superior Court of the South Georgia Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Bert Poston as Judge of the Superior Court of the Conasauga Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Kelley M. Robertson as Judge of the State Court of Hall County | |
| Declaring a State of Emergency for Tornadoes and Severe Storms | |
| Lowering flags to half-staff on Saturday, March 25, 2023, in honor and memory of State Representative Letitia “Tish” Naghise | |
| Appointing members to the review commission to consider the indictment of Gregory Baker, Tax Commissioner for Douglas County | |
| Appointing members to the review commission to consider the indictment of Dr. Romona Jackson Jones, County Commissioner for Douglas County, and Henry Mitchell, County Commissioner for Douglas County | |
| Increasing the Georgians for Refuge, Action, Compassion, & Education Commission Membership | |
| Issuing a writ of election to fill the District 68 seat in the Georgia House of Representatives | |
| Appointing the Honorable Christopher A. Arnt as Judge of the Superior Court of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Clayton M. Fuller as District Attorney of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Katherine L. Paulk as Judge of the State Court of Coffee County | |
| Appointing the Honorable Michael L. Hubbard as Judge of the State Court of Carroll County | |
| Appointing the Honorable Ryan S. Hope as Judge of the State Court of Clarke County | |
| Appointing the Honorable Margaret Claire Chason as Judge of the Superior Court of the South Georgia Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing Major General Konata Ato Crumbly as Assistant Adjutant General for Air of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jeffrey Eugene Mullis as a member of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association | |
| Appointing the Honorable Robert Hewlett Grigsby as a member of the Georgia Student Finance Commission Board of Commissioners | |
| Renewal of State of Emergency for Supply Chain Disruptions | |
| Appointing the Honorable Mark Kauffman as a member of the Professional Standards Commission | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Indran Indrakrishnan as a member of the Board of Healthcare Workforce | |
| Reappointing the Honorable William R. Kemp as a member of the Board of Health Care Workforce | |
| Appointing the Honorable Benjamin DeLeon Steele as a member of the Georgia Board of Examiners of Licensed Dietitians | |
| Appointing the Honorable Katherine Keehn Wiley as a member of the Georgia Board of Examiners of Licensed Dietitians | |
| Appointing the Honorable William Pope Hightower as a member of the State Workforce Development Board | |
| Appointing the Honorable Deke Gavin Cateau as a member of the Georgia Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable David Johnson as a member of the State Board of Registration of Used Car Dealers and Used Motor Vehicle Parts Dealers | |
| Reappointing 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 Cornelius “Neil” Edward Rawls as a member of the State Board of Registration of Used Moto Vehicle Dealers and Used Motor Vehicle Parts Dealers | |
| Appointing the Honorable Michael Edward Farmer as a member of the State Board of Pharmacy | |
| Appointing the Honorable James “Bubber” Alton Epps, Jr. as a member of the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities | |
| Appointing the Honorable Erica Rocker as a member of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association | |
| Appointing the Honorable Roy Hampton Fickling as a member of the Board of Public Safety | |
| Appointing the Honorable Sonyja J. George as Judge of the State Court of Clayton County | |
| Appointing the Honorable Scott F. McAfee as Judge of the Superior Court of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable G. Kevin Morris as Judge of the Superior Court of the Alcovy Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Shannon Wallace as Judge of the Superior Court of the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jaletta Long Smith as Judge of the State Court of Gwinnett County | |
| Appointing the Honorable James E. Hardy as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable James Terry Branch as a member of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Cody Whitlock as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Firefighters’ Pension Fund | |
| Appointing the Honorable Jennifer Diane Vann as a member of the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists | |
| Declaring a State of Emergency due to unlawful assemblage, overt threats of violence, disruption of the peace, and danger existing to persons and property | |
| Appointing members to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Overview Committee | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Benjamin Lamar Gillis as a member of the State Forestry Commission | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Robert Pollard as a member of the State Forestry Commission | |
| Appointing the Honorable T. Jane Warnock as Chairperson of the Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Dwight Davis as a member of the Board of Natural Resources | |
| Appointing the Honorable Tyler Leon Barr as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lottery Corporation | |
| Appointing the Honorable Carl Perry Dowling as a member of the Certificate of Need Appeal Panel | |
| Appointing the Honorable Michael Wayne Brown as a member of the State Construction Industry Licensing Board, Division of Conditioned Air Contractors | |
| Appointing the Honorable Randell Eugene Trammell as chairperson of the Georgia Commission on Civics Education | |
| Appointing the Honorable Brenda DeAnn Golden as a member of the Georgia Real Estate Commission | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Jeffrey Scot Hackleman as a member of the State Board of Optometry | |
| Appointing the Honorable Virginia “Ellen” D. Fitzgerald as a member of the State Board of Optometry | |
| Issuing a writ of election to fill the District 75 seat in the Georgia House of Representatives | |
| Approving the issuance of single family mortgage bonds by the Georgia Housing and Finance Authority | |
| Reappointing members to the Altamaha Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Appointing members to the Altamaha Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Reappointing members to the Upper Oconee Regional Water Planning Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Alexia Louise Jones as a member of the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Veda Charmaine Johnson as a member of the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Nathan Atkin Call as a member of the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council | |
| Appointing the Honorable Nancy B. Young as a member of the Georgia Board of Dentistry | |
| Appointing the Honorable John Fitzgerald Carter as a member of the Invest Georgia Board | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Charles B. Thompson as a member of the Invest Georgia Board | |
| Extending the State of Emergency for Tornadoes and Severe Storms | |
| Reappointing the Honorable William Frank Griffin as a member of the State Board of Education | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Leonte Bernard Leonta as a member of the State Board of Education | |
| Appointing the Honorable Nicholas Dwayne Ellis as a member of the State Board of Education | |
| Reappointing the Honorable Erin Hames as a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia | |
| Reappointing the Honorable James M. Hull as a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Joe Hatfield as a member of the Board of Natural Resources | |
| Appointing the Honorable Kevin "Catfish" Jackson as a member of the Board of Natural Resources | |
| Appointing the Honorable Debra Mae Bailey as a member of the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities | |
| Appointing Major General Thomas M. Carden, Jr. as Adjutant General of Georgia | |
| Declaring a State of Emergency for Tornadoes and Severe Storms | |
| Authorizing the demolition and removal of a structure from Standing Boy Creek State Park | |
| Appointing the Honorable William R. Oliver as Superior Court Judge of the Mountain Judicial Circuit | |
| Renewal of the State of Emergency for Supply Chain Disruptions | |
| Authorizing a transfer from the Governor’s Emergency Fund | |
| Appointing the Honorable C. Gregory Price as Senior Judge of the Juvenile Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Linda S. Cowen as Senior Judge of the State Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Ethelyn N. Simpson as Senior Judge of the State Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Pamela D. South as Senior Judge of the State Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable David D. Watkins as Senior Judge of the State Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Louisa Abbot as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable William T. Boyett as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Robert E. Flournoy, III as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable C. Andrew Fuller as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable John M. Ott as Senior Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia | |
| Appointing the Honorable Timothy Ward as a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles |
