BallotPedia, Mellie Nesmith (Evans County Coroner, Georgia, candidate 2024)

As of July 25, 2024, Mellie Nesmith did not have a website.

Mellie Nesmith is currently the coroner in Evans County. 

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Mellie Nesmith

As of July 27, 2024, Mellie Nesmith did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

Mellie Nesmith is currently Coroner in Evans County. Information on when Mellie was elected is unavailable. 

As of July 25, 2024, Mellie Nesmith did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

As of July 28, 2024, Mellie Nesmith did not have a website.

- 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