Sarah Hawkins Warren (born 1981 or 1982) is an American lawyer and judge serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia since 2018. She was appointed by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal on August 22, 2018, to fill the vacancy created when Britt Grant was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Warren was sworn in by Gov. Deal and assumed her seat on the Court on September 17, 2018. Warren graduated from The Westminster Schools, then received a bachelor's degree from

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degree from Duke University School of Law. She served as a

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of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. She became a partner at the

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Kirkland & Ellis, based in the Washington, D.C. office, where she represented the State of Georgia in ''Florida v. Georgia'' (2018), a United States Supreme Court original jurisdiction case that was part of the long-running dispute over the flow of river water among those two states and Alabama. Warren has also held several positions in Georgia's

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. Immediately before her judicial appointment, Warren served as the state Solicitor General from January 2017, a position in which she also succeeded Britt Grant. Warren and her husband, Blaise Warren, have three children and reside in Atlanta. Warren's political affiliation was rated to be "strong Republican" by Ballotpedia's 2021 study of state supreme court judges partisanship. This rating is based on past political affiliation, campaign involvement, and donations made to partisan candidates, but does not include an analysis of the judge's past decisions.

Supreme Court of Georgia

In the June 2020 election in Georgia, incumbent Justice Sarah Warren faced opposition to her Court seat from Hal Moroz. She was one of two justices facing opposition on the Court. She retained her seat by a 79%-21% margin.
Ga. elects state Supreme Court justice
' By Krista Monk, WALB, June 10, 2020

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