Dawn Baskin Seeks Election as Judge

Dawn M. Baskin, Senior Assistant District Attorney for the Ocmulgee Judicial District Attorney’s Office, has announced that she will be seeking the judicial position being vacated by the retirement of the Honorable Hugh V. Wingfield.

Ms. Baskin is an attorney with 21 years of experience, including 14 years with the District Attorney’s office in the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit. In her 14 years with the District Attorney’s office, Ms. Baskin has been lead prosecutor on over 6,000 cases.

She also developed and ran the “Special Victims’ Unit” for the District Attorney’s Office for a decade. This unit specialized in the prosecution of child sexual and physical abuse in all eight counties. As a result, Ms. Baskin has tried jury trials in every single county in this circuit.

Ms. Baskin has tried more than 60 jury cases in her career, including murder, drug trafficking, rape and child molestation cases. Readers may remember her as the lead prosecutor in State v. Myron Wendell Sheppard, a child molestation case where the defendant fled to Costa Rica, and the lead prosecutor in State v. Leo Frank Cherry, another child molestation case.

Dawn Baskin was one of the final four candidates selected by the Judicial Nominating Commission in 2014 for consideration by the governor for the positions vacated with the retirement of Judge Hulane E. George and the death of Judge Jim Cline, Jr.

Ms. Baskin lives in Gray with her husband and is the proud mother of three daughters.

Contact Ms. Baskin at 478-986-3166 (office) or 478-288-2655 (cell) for any questions or further information