Education and Legal Career
Dillard graduated from Samford University and the Mississippi College School of Law (cum laude). In 1996, he was admitted to practice in Georgia, and he is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia and federal bar associations. Dillard clerked for Judge Daniel Anthony Manion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Dillard practiced appellate law with the Macon, Georgia law firm of James, Bates, Pope & Spivey LLP until receiving his judgeship appointment in 2010. He also lives in Macon with his wife, the former Krista McDaniel, and their three children.
On June 1, 2009, Steve Dillard was nominated by Georgia State Senator Cecil Staton (R) to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court of Georgia, and, on July 1, 2009, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue's Office of Communications announced that the Georgia Judicial Nominating Commission had recommended Dillard as one of nine individuals to fill that vacancy. But in August 2009, Governor Perdue appointed Dillard instead to the Judicial Nominating Commission.
In October 2010, Governor Perdue appointed Dillard to fill one of two vacancies on the Georgia Court of Appeals. Dillard's judicial appointment runs from November 1, 2010 through January 1, 2013. He will be up for election for a full six-year term in July 2012.
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