Scott F. McAfee (born ) is an American judge serving on the Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia since 2023. Judge McAfee was the Georgia inspector general from 2021 to 2023. Prior to his current appointment, Judge McAfee served as a senior assistant

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in Fulton County and an assistant

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for the

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. In August 2023, McAfee garnered national attention when he was assigned to preside over the Fulton County district attorney's criminal racketeering case against

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Early life and education

McAfee was born in . He was raised in

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. He is an

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and graduate of

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. McAfee received a cello scholarship to play in the

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symphony orchestra. In 2010, he completed a bachelor's degree in political science and music. In 2012, McAfee was a judicial

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for Georgia Supreme Court justice Keith R. Blackwell. He also interned for justice David Nahmias. In 2013, he graduated from the

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, ''

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''. While in law school, he was the vice president of the school's

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chapter, treasurer of Law Republicans and inducted into The Order of Barristers.

Career

McAfee was an assistant district attorney in the

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, Piedmont Judicial Circuit. He joined the office of the district attorney in Fulton County in April 2015, initially working on the early stages of criminal cases. He later was promoted to working as a prosecutor in the complex trial division, which was then headed by prosecutor

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, who was later elected as Fulton County district attorney. McAfee was eventually promoted to senior assistant district attorney in the major case division, where he prosecuted felony cases including armed robbery and murder. In 2019, McAfee was appointed as an assistant

for the

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. He worked in the criminal division where he investigated and prosecuted drug trafficking organizations, fraud, and illegal firearms possession. On April 1, 2021, Georgia governor

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appointed McAfee as the state inspector general, tasked with overseeing

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and

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within Georgia's

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. He concluded after only three weeks, “no voter fraud was found”. He was asked to reopen the case; he ignored the request, and 5 months later, someone finally responded: He no longer worked there. Kemp had been appointed him a superior court judge.

State judge in Fulton County

In December 2022, Kemp appointed McAfee to the Fulton County Superior Court following Christopher S. Brasher's retirement. He was sworn in on February 1, 2023. In August 2023, he was assigned to preside over the

racketeering Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercion, coercive, fraud, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. ...

case, '' State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al'', in which former president

and 18 co-defendants are accused of conspiring to overturn the Georgia presidential election results.'''' Fani Willis is overseeing the prosecution of that case. McAfee is running for election to a full four-year term as a state judge in May 2024.''''

Personal life

, McAfee is a volunteer scuba diver at the

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and captains an

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tennis team. He is married and has two children.

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