Meet Sarah

Sarah Hawkins Warren is the Presiding Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. In that capacity, she helps lead the Supreme Court and has a formal role in running Georgia’s Judicial Branch.

Sarah has served on the Supreme Court for more than seven years. She was appointed to the Court by Governor Nathan Deal and was sworn in on September 17, 2018. In 2020, she was re-elected to a six-year term after winning a contested, state-wide race for her seat on the Court. In that race, Georgians showed their overwhelming support for Sarah, who was elected with 79% of the vote.

Sarah graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a B.A. in Public Policy and Spanish. She worked as Deputy Press Secretary for the White House Office of Management and Budget before returning to Duke for law school. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Duke University School of Law.

Following her graduation from law school, Sarah served as a law clerk to then-Chief Judge J.L. Edmondson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and to the Honorable Richard J. Leon of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She also practiced as a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington, D.C., where she represented clients before state and federal courts and was outside counsel to Georgia in Florida v. Georgia, No. 142 Original (United States Supreme Court) – also known as Georgia’s “Water Wars” case.

Sarah was raised in Atlanta and is now raising her family there. After moving back home in 2015, Sarah began service in the Office of Attorney General Sam Olens as Deputy Solicitor General and Special Counsel for Water Litigation. In January 2017, she was appointed Solicitor General by Attorney General Chris Carr, and in that role served as the chief appellate lawyer for the State of Georgia and the primary constitutional law advisor to the Attorney General. As Solicitor General, Sarah represented Georgia in multi-state litigation and in appeals before state and federal courts, including in an argument before the United States Supreme Court.

Sarah and her husband, Blaise, live in Atlanta and are raising three young children and two energetic dogs. In addition to her work on the Court and at home, Sarah serves on the Berry College Board of Trustees, the Westminster Schools Board of Trustees, the Bolch Judicial Institute Advisory Board, the Council of the American Law Institute, and the Federalist Society / Atlanta Lawyers Chapter Advisory Board. She is a member of the Leadership Georgia Class of 2022 and the Rodel Judicial Fellowship Class of 2023.