2024 Georgia General Elections

2024 Georgia General Election Runoff

Bill Cox Candidate for Bryan County Coroner

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Bill attended Bainbridge College, Georgia Southwestern College, and Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. He and his wife, Jennifer, have four children. 

Bill is the owner of Richmond Hill Funeral Home, where he has been for over 23 years. 

Bill Cox currently serves as the Bryan County Coroner. He was first elected in 2008 and is seeking a fifth term. He previously ran for Coroner in Bryan County in 2004, but did not win.


As of July 25, 2024, Bill Cox did not have a website or any information online.

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Bill Cox

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 

The chief medical examiner for the county

Bryan Coroner

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