{{Short description|American judge (born 1976)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Charlie Bethel | office = Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia | appointer = Nathan Deal | term_start = October 2, 2018 | term_end = | predecessor = Harris Hines | successor = | office1 = Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals | appointer1 = Nathan Deal | term_start1 = January 1, 2017 | term_end1 = October 2, 2018 | predecessor1 = Michael P. Boggs | successor1 = Christian A. Coomer | state_senate2 = Georgia State | district2 = 54th | term_start2 = January 10, 2011 | term_end2 = December 31, 2016 | predecessor2 = Don Thomas | successor2 = Chuck Payne | birth_name = Charles Jones Bethel | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|3|3}} | birth_place = Athens, Georgia, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | education = University of Georgia (BBA, JD) }} '''Charles Jones "Charlie" Bethel'''<ref>[https://www.martindale.com/dalton/georgia/charles-jones-bethel-2494340-a/ Hon. Charles Jones Bethel] martindale</ref> (born March 3, 1976)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.senate.ga.gov/senators/en-US/member.aspx?Member=753 |title=Georgia General Assembly |access-date=2019-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023182147/http://www.senate.ga.gov/senators/en-US/member.aspx?Member=753 |archive-date=2019-10-23 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="AtlantaUnifiied" /> is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He is a former Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Before his judicial tenure, he served as Senator in the Georgia General Assembly from Dalton, Georgia.<ref name="sgagov"><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.senate.ga.gov/senators/en-US/member.aspx?Member=753&Session=23 Senator Charlie Bethel]</span>. Senate.ga.gov. Retrieved June 28, 2013.</ref> Bethel was first elected Senator in the 2010 general election and served Georgia's 54th district—a constituency which includes Murray and Whitfield counties, and portions of Gordon and Pickens counties as well.<ref><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.senate.ga.gov/senators/en-US/District.aspx?District=54&Session=23 District 54 Senator Charlie Bethel (R)]</span>. Senate.ga.gov. Retrieved June 28, 2013.</ref>
==Early life and education== Charlie Bethel graduated ''cum laude'' in 1998 from the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business with a Bachelor of Business Administration in business management. He stayed with the University of Georgia, graduating with a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2001. Bethel was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 2001 and practiced law from 2003 to 2005. He is admitted to practice law in all of Georgia's state courts, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Bethel was an assistant solicitor for the city of Dalton from 2003 to 2004.
==Political career== Bethel was elected to the Georgia Senate in 2010 as a Republican and sworn in the following year.<ref name="sgagov"/> Bethel was a three-term Senator<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.dailycitizen.news/news/local_news/dalton-native-charlie-bethel-named-to-supreme-court-of-georgia/article_5720a26b-d546-5d25-b639-7904e5d8c275.html|title=Dalton native Charlie Bethel named to Supreme Court of Georgia|last=Oliver|first=Charles|work=The Daily Citizen|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en}}</ref> and sat on the Senate Government Oversight, Insurance and Labor, Judiciary, Judiciary Non-Civil, and Reapportionment and Redistricting committees.<ref name="sgagov"/>
==Judicial career== ===Georgia Court of Appeals=== On November 9, 2016, the day after being elected to his fourth Senate term,<ref name=":0" /> Bethel was appointed to be a Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals by Governor Nathan Deal. He assumed the seat of Michael P. Boggs who was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia.<ref name="AtlantaUnifiied">{{Cite web |url=https://atlantaunfiltered.com/2016/11/10/sen-charlie-bethel/#.WsO3fIjwbIU |title=Ex-Sen. Charlie Bethel (SD 54): Here come da judge}}</ref> He took the bench on January 1, 2017, for a term that would have ended on December 31, 2018.
===Georgia Supreme Court=== On September 14, 2018, Governor Deal appointed Bethel to the Supreme Court of Georgia to fill the seat vacated by the retirement of Harris Hines.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.gasupreme.us/9-14-18-new-justice/|title=9/14/18 - CHIEF JUSTICE MELTON ON APPOINTMENT OF NEW JUSTICE TO SUPREME COURT|work=Supreme Court of Georgia|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-US}}</ref> He was sworn into office on October 2, 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/bethel-assumes-high-court-bench/article_59e81b03-263f-5e0c-a8aa-bf4bf13ed12f.html |title=Bethel assumes high court bench |last=Nolin |first=Jill |date=2018-10-03 |website=Valdosta Daily Times |language=en |access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref>
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==External links== * <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.legis.ga.gov/en-US/default.aspx Welcome to the Georgia General Assembly] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703173413/http://www.legis.ga.gov/en-US/default.aspx |date=2013-07-03 }}</span> Legis.ga.gov. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
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