Background
Mitchell, Erwin was born on August 17, 1924 in Dalton, Georgia, United States.
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Erwin Mitchell
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The Citadel; University of Georgia (Bachelor of Laws, 1948).
Career
Worked at Mitchell & Mitchell, Professional Corporation (Dalton, Georgia) specializing in State and Federal Trial Practice. Tort, Insurance, Commercial, Products Liability, Corporations, Real Estate, Workers Compensation, Wills, Trusts, Criminal, Municipal, State and Federal Administrative, Environmental, Taxation, Estate Planning. Admitted to the bar, 1948, Georgia.
Delta Theta Phi.
Solicitor-General, Cherokee Judicial Circuit, 1953-1956. Judge, Superior Court, Cherokee Judicial Circuit, 1957-1958. Elected to 85th and 86th Congress, 1957-1960.
Member, Georgia State Senate, 1961-1962.
City Attorney, City of Dalton, 1974-1986. Member: Conasauga Circuit Bar Association.
State Bar of Georgia. Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
American Judicature Society.
Military: 1st Lieutenant, AAC, 1943-1946. United States Air Force, 1951-1952
Mitchell & Mitchell, Professional Corporation was founded in 1924 as Mitchell & Mitchell by brothers John C. Mitchell and Doctorate. Wright Mitchell, Senior Originating as a small law office in the middle of Dalton, then a small mill town, the firm - like the city - has grown and expanded but retained its original mission of serving as a dynamic general practice organization committed to the vigorous representation of its clients.
The firm now serves the carpet industry with its practice serving the entire State of Georgia and in the recent past requiring the delivery of legal services in more than 25 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and several foreign countries.
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Membership
Member, Georgia State Senate, 1961-1962. City Attorney, City of Dalton, 1974-1986. Member: Conasauga Circuit Bar Association.
State Bar of Georgia.
Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. American Judicature Society.
Military: 1st Lieutenant, AAC, 1943-1946. United States Air Force, 1951-1952.
