Sarah Hawkins Warren

Sarah Hawkins Warren^[1] (born c. 1981 or 1982)^[2] is an American lawyer and judge serving as the presiding justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia since 2025. She was originally appointed to the Supreme Court as an associate justice 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.^[3] Warren was sworn in by Gov. Deal and assumed her seat on the court on September 17, 2018.^[4] She is on the Advisory Board of the Atlanta Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.^[5]

Sarah Hawkins Warren
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
Incumbent
Assumed office September 17, 2018
Appointed by	Nathan Deal
Preceded by	Britt Grant
Personal details
Born	Sarah Mashburn Hawkins 1981 or 1982 (age 42–43) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Spouse	Blaise Warren
Children	3
Education	Duke University (BA, JD)

Early life and career

Warren graduated from The Westminster Schools, then received a bachelor's degree from Duke University and her Juris Doctor degree from Duke University School of Law. She served as a law clerk to Judge Richard J. Leon of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and for Judge James Larry Edmondson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

She became a partner at the law firm 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.^{[citation needed]}

Warren and her husband, Blaise Warren, have three children and reside in Atlanta.^[6]

State solicitor general

Warren has also held several positions in Georgia's Office of the Attorney General.^[3][6] Immediately before her judicial appointment, Warren served as the state Solicitor General from January 2017, a position in which she also succeeded Britt Grant.^[3][6]

Supreme Court of Georgia

In the June 2020 election in Georgia, incumbent Justice Sarah Warren faced opposition to her Court seat from Hal Moroz.^[7] She was one of two justices facing opposition on the Court.^[8] She retained her seat by a 79%-21% margin.^[9] In February 2025, she was elected to serve as the presiding justice of the court, for a term beginning April 1.^[10]