Career
Boggs received a Bachelor of Arts in 1985 from Georgia Southern College. He received a Juris Doctor in 1990 from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. From 1990 to 1998, he served as an attorney in private practice at a number of law firms.
From 1998 to 2005, he was a sole practitioner.
In 2000, he was elected as a Democrat to the Georgia House of Representatives, holding office until 2004. From 2004 to 2012, he served as a Superior Court Judge of the Waycross Judicial Circuit of the First Judicial Administrative District of Georgia of the Georgia Superior Court, where he established and presided over the court"s felony drug court program
Since January 2012, he has served as a Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals. On December 19, 2013, President Obama nominated Boggs to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, to the seat expected to be vacated by Judge Julie East. Carnes, who was nominated to United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on the same day.
He received a hearing before the full panel of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on May 13, 2014.
On December 30, 2014, retiring Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia) revealed that he had been advised in late November by White House chief of staff Denis McDonough that Boggs would not be renominated in 2015 for confirmation by the 114th Congress.
