ATLANTA—The Supreme Court of Georgia welcomes its 2022-23 class of term law clerks.

Term law clerks serve for one year, assisting their assigned Justices with legal research, drafting and reviewing opinions, preparing for oral arguments, and other important responsibilities.

The 2022-2023 class of term clerks consists of high-caliber law school graduates from Georgia and out-of-state law schools, including four former and future federal court clerks. They also include legal publication editors, moot court competitors and champions, a former child safety program coordinator, a former Teach for America corps member, an electrical engineer, and a professional harpist.

Now in its fifth year, the Court’s term clerk program allows Georgia’s highest court to invest in the future leaders of the Georgia bar, as well as in the state’s appellate practice, through an intensive year of legal research and writing. Some of this year’s term clerks graduated recently from law school, while others have come to the Court after one or more years of work in the legal profession.

“We are glad to welcome another outstanding cohort of new lawyers and provide them with real and involved experience in appellate practice,” Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs said. “We feel confident that they will go on to share their acquired knowledge and skills with their colleagues and to find valuable, fulfilling careers in the law. And we look forward to seeing what they accomplish next.”

Meet the 2022-23 class:

  • Kacey Baine, a summa cum laude graduate of Georgia State University College of Law, is clerking for Justice Shawn Ellen LaGrua. Originally from Fernandina Beach, Fla., Baine earned her bachelor of science in health education from the University of Florida. She previously has completed internships with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Georgia’s Cyber Division, the Judicial Qualifications Commission, and United States Magistrate Judge Catherine Salinas in the Northern District of Georgia. She also has worked as a prevention and education program coordinator at the Stephanie V. Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. During law school, she was a Georgia State University Law Review symposium editor, the Student Bar Association Vice President, a member of the Bleckley Inn of Court, and an Order of the Coif inductee.
  • Mary Chandler Beam, a graduate of Duke University School of Law, is clerking for Justice Carla Wong McMillian. Beam grew up in Grayson, Ga., and earned her bachelor of science in psychology with a minor in Spanish from the University of Georgia. While in law school at Duke, Mary Chandler served as president of the Government and Public Service Society and co-Editor-in-Chief of Law and Contemporary Problems. She also completed an externship with North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Darren Jackson during her third year of law school.
  • Haley Gintis, who graduated with high honors from Emory University School of Law, is clerking for Justice Verda M. Colvin. Originally from Raleigh, N.C., Gintis also has a master of science in education from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor of arts in psychology and hearing and speech sciences from the University of Maryland. Prior to earning her master’s degree, she served as a tenth-grade English teacher for Teach for America in Oahu, Hawaii. During law school, she was the Executive Managing Editor of the Emory International Law Review and inducted into the Order of the Coif. She also has completed a summer legal internship with the North Carolina Department of Justice, a fall legal externship with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a summer legal fellowship with the Georgia Hospital Association.
  • Dylan Mauldin, a magna cum laude graduate from the University of Georgia School of Law, is clerking for Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren. Mauldin, from Cumming, Ga., previously worked as a summer associate for the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP in New York and as a student attorney in the UGA School of Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, where he drafted briefs and helped prepare student co-counsel for oral argument in a case before the Georgia Court of Appeals. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
  • Nathan Pinnell, who graduated first in his class from the University of North Carolina School of Law, is clerking for Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs. Pinnell, from Powder Springs, Ga., earned his bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Georgia and his master of arts in political science from UNC. He attended UNC Law as a Chancellor’s Scholar and was Publication Editor of the North Carolina Law Review. During law school, he also won the Joint Journal Competition and was a competing member of the Broun National Trial Team. He has previously worked as a summer associate for law firms Bondurant Mixson & Elmore and Alston & Bird. Following completion of this clerkship, Pinnell plans to clerk for Judge Stephanos Bibas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
  • Lucy Ratchford, who graduated with high honors from Emory University School of Law, clerked last year for former Chief Justice David E. Nahmias and has returned for a second year to clerk for the Court’s newest member, Justice Andrew A. Pinson. Previously, she worked as an associate at King & Spalding and clerked for Judge Karon O. Bowdre of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Ratchford, of Sandwich, Mass., earned her undergraduate degree in letters, with a concentration in constitutional studies, from the University of Oklahoma. During law school, she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and named a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow.
  • Miles Skedsvold, a cum laude graduate from the University of Georgia School of Law, is clerking for Presiding Justice Nels S.D. Peterson. Skedsvold, of Sandy Springs, previously clerked for Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Next year, he plans to clerk for Judge Lisa Branch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He also served two years as an honors fellow with the Office of the Attorney General of Georgia. During law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and competed on the moot court team, winning the Hulsey Gambrell Moot Court Competition, winning best oralist in the Talmadge Moot Court Competition, and placing in the final four of the Russell Moot Court Competition. He earned his undergraduate degree from Georgia College and State University, where he graduated magna cum laude.
  • Tinsley Stokes, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, is clerking for Justice Charlie Bethel. During law school, Stokes worked as a student attorney in UGA Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, as a summer associate for Jones Day, and interned with Judge William M. Ray, II, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Next year, she plans to clerk for Judge Ray. Also during law school, she served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgia Law Review, competed in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition, and argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit as a student attorney with UGA Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, receiving a favorable decision for her client. Stokes, who is from Atlanta, earned her bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor and has past experience as a professional harpist and children’s music theory teacher.

The Supreme Court of Georgia’s term clerk program began in 2018 with the support of the Georgia General Assembly. Each Justice hires his or her own one-year term clerk.