Governor Names Former DeKalb DA Bob Wilson, Former Attorney General Mike Bowers as Special Investigators
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8/21/10 Governor Sonny Perdue announced yesterday that he is appointing former DeKalb County District Attorney Bob Wilson and former Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers as Special Investigators to look into testing irregularities on the 2009 CRCT administration at Atlanta Public Schools and Dougherty County School System. Governor Perdue told the State Board of Education on Wednesday that he would take this step after the reports submitted by Atlanta Public Schools and Dougherty County School System were deemed to be incomplete. Michael J. Bowers Michael J. Bowers former Attorney General of Georgia, is a
Partner at Balch & Bingham LLC. He joined the firm in September
of 1998, concentrating in general civil litigation. He became
Partner in January of 2000. Georgia
Trend Magazine named Mike as one of the 100
Most Influential Georgians from their beginning in 1990 through
1997 and again in 2003. Mike currently serves as Chairman of the
Georgia Judicial Nominating Commission. Upon obtaining his law
degree, Mike accepted a position with the State of
Georgia Attorney General’s Office, where
he worked until he was appointed Attorney General of Georgia in
1981. Mike was reelected four times and served as Attorney
General until June of 1997, when he resigned from office in
order to seek the Republican nomination for Governor. Bowers
served in the United States Air Force from 1963-1970, when he
joined the Air National Guard, from which he retired in 1997 at
the rank of Major General. From 1994 to 1997, he served as
Chair of the National Guard Bureau’s Counterdrug Board in
Washington,
Robert E. “Bob” Wilson Bob Wilson received a B.S. degree from the
University of North
Carolina in 1970 and is a 1974
graduate of Emory University School of Law. In 1978,
Wilson
was appointed Chief Public Defender for
DeKalb ,
a position he held until resigning to run for District Attorney.
Bob was first elected District Attorney for the Stone Mountain
Judicial Circuit in 1980 by defeating an incumbent. As District
Attorney, Bob was twice re-elected without opposition. While
District Attorney, Bob established Georgia’s first Child Abuse
Prosecution Unit, first Career Criminal Prosecution Unit as well
as one of Georgia’s first Victim Assistance Programs. In 1998
Bob was one of the founders of the firm of Wilson, Morton &
Downs, LLC, located in
Decatur, where he practices law today. In
1992 Bob was appointed by then Governor Zell Miller as a Special
Assistant Attorney General to investigate the business practices
in Georgia of Fleet Finance, Inc., a subsidiary of one of
America’s largest financial
institutions. After conducting one of the most extensive
civil investigations ever undertaken by the State of
Georgia, Mr. Wilson negotiated a settlement
valued in excess of $100 million between the State of
Georgia and Fleet Finance.
At the time, this settlement was the largest by any state
against a single company under an unfair and deceptive acts and
practices statute in
United States
history. During his legal career, Bob has served the State of
Georgia and his local community
in many capacities and received numerous awards and honors. Bob
was co-founder and first Chair of the Board of Directors of the
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