Governor Brian Kemp announced on Tuesday that a McIntosh County attorney will fill the vacancy in the district attorney’s office left by Billy Joe Nelson, who was recently appointed to the Superior Court bench.
Kemp announced that Richard E. “Richy” Braun, Jr. would serve as the District Attorney for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, which encompasses Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, and Tattnall counties.
Richard E. “Richy” Braun, Jr., is a lifelong resident of the Atlantic Judicial Circuit and a seventh-generation Liberty Countian. He currently serves as the Solicitor-General of McIntosh County and the Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit. He has also served as the City Manager for the City of Darien and as a partner in the law firms of Braun & Braun LLP and Jones Osteen & Jones.
In private practice, Braun represented numerous financial institutions, local governments, and governmental entities including the City of Hinesville, McIntosh County, the City of Darien, the City of Midway, and the McIntosh County Board of Education. Braun began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Atlantic Judicial Circuit.
Braun received his Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Georgia Southern University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law.
Braun and his wife, Jennifer, reside in Darien and have six children.
