Fredric Daniel Bright

A celebration of the life of Fredric Daniel Bright will be held Tuesday, May 1, at 4 p.m. in Northridge Christian Church, 321 Log Cabin Road, Milledgeville. Interment will follow in Heritage Memorial Park.

The family will receive friends at Williams Funeral Home in Milledgeville on Monday, April 30 from 4 until 8 p.m..

Fred, a native of Baltimore, came to Georgia in 1973 and graduated from Emory and then the University of Georgia School of Law. Fred, one of the most experienced trial lawyers in Georgia, was a career prosecutor, serving as the District Attorney for the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit for 21 years and as an Assistant District Attorney for 13 years before that. He tried over 400 jury trials.

In 2015, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia.

After retiring from the D.A.’s office, he joined the Cansino Law Firm of Milledgeville in January 2018. He loved his courthouse families and relentlessly fought for justice.