District Attorney
district attorney - fani willis
WElcome message
inclusion, integrity
innovation
district Attorney's Office
top services
district attorney's office
Meet the team
Fani T. Willis is the District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, the state’s largest county and the home to over one million Georgians. It is home to most of the City of Atlanta, as well as many of the city’s suburban communities, including Sandy Springs, the City of South Fulton and several smaller communities north and south of Atlanta. She is the first woman to serve in the position.
Read More
Don Geary came to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office from private practice at the Geary Law Firm in Lawrenceville Georgia. He was in private practice from December 2016 to May 2021, with a focus on criminal and domestic law.
Read More
In 2021, Daysha rejoined the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office as the Executive Director of the Special Victims Unit. She is an experienced trial attorney who has expertise in trying cases involving homicides, sexual assault, child sexual and physical abuse, domestic violence, and vulnerable citizens of the community.
Read More
Mike Carlson holds a Martindale-Hubbell attorney rating of “AV Preeminent,” reserved for “attorneys who are ranked at the highest level of professional excellence for their legal expertise, communication skills, and ethical standards by their peers.”
Read More
Jeff DiSantis is the Deputy District Attorney overseeing the Media Relations Unit. In that role, he is responsible for keeping the public informed of the work of the District Attorney and the issues the office is handling that are of importance to the people of Fulton County.
Read More
Before he began his career with Fulton County District Attorney’s Office in September 2013, Chief Capers Green served 9 years at the Henry County Police Department. Green also served as an officer with the City of Decatur and Emory Police Department in Decatur, GA from 2002 to 2006.
Read More
Tia is a meticulous, task-driven Executive Assistant with over 18 years of administrative experience managing office operations. Equipped with expertise in management, project coordination and the ability to facilitate all aspects of internal and external communications makes her an invaluable asset to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.
Read More
district attorney's office
News & videos
28 - Sep
Atlanta’s First Black Female District Attorney Is at the Center of America's Converging Crises
So much of what is ugly and unhinged about America can be seen in the eyes of a mother whose 8-year-old is dead. But, on a Tuesday in August, at Atlanta’s downtown courthouse, that’s where Fulton County, Ga.’s district attorney, Fani Willis, is looking.
Read More
14 - Aug
Fulton County joins effort to restrict criminal records, opening job and housing opportunities
Fulton County has joined Cobb County in hosting criminal record restriction and expungement open houses to clear records as part of new "Second Chance" legislation.
Read More
05 - Aug
'Behave in a way that is safe' | Fulton DA, federal officials provide update Piedmont Park stabbing
Fulton County officials joined law enforcement on Thursday afternoon to update the public on the Piedmont Park stabbing case. District Attorney Fani Wills, Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, acting United States Attorney Kurt Erskine, and others in law enforcement spoke at the county courthouse around 2 p.m.
Read More
21 - Jul
EXCLUSIVE: Cherokee prosecutors near plea deal with spa shooting suspect, Fulton DA says
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Wednesday that she has been informed the Cherokee County case involving Robert Aaron Long, charged with multiple counts of murder following shootings at three metro Atlanta spas on March 16, is expected to be resolved at an arraignment next week.
Read More
10 - May
Fulton DA says police shooting cases to be resolved
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who took office in January after soundly defeating her former boss, Paul Howard, said her office is making progress in tackling a massive backlog of roughly 11,000 cases.
Read More
19 - Apr
Fulton integrity unit exonerates first wrongly convicted defendant
On April 14, after more than 18 years in prison, Stinchcomb walked out of custody a free man, the first person exonerated by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit.
Read More
17 - Mar
Georgia prosecutor investigating Trump hires new evidence expert
The Atlanta-area district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump, Fani Willis, is beefing up her office with a new evidence expert, according to a source familiar with the situation.
Read More
19 - Feb
New Fulton DA balances Trump probe, massive local workload
The Fulton County District Attorney’s office was in disarray when Fani Willis arrived the first week of January. Her six-term predecessor and former boss, Paul Howard, had refused to speak to her during the transition. Staffers were on edge. And then there were the hundreds of brown file boxes.
Read More
04 - Jan
You Can Call Her Madam DA; Fani Willis on Making History As Fulton County’s First Woman District Attorney
“From being a very, very little girl until I sit here today, there was never anything I’ve ever wanted to do but practice law or sit on the bench,” Fulton County’s newest district attorney (DA) Fani Willis explains.
Read More