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Tommy attended Dekalb Community College and Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science, from which he graduated in 1988. He is married and has three daughters and two granddaughters.

Tommy has 21 years of service with the coroner's office, including serving as deputy coroner for 5 years before running for election. He serves on the Child Fatality Review Panel and as the coroner representative of the Metro Atlanta Mass Fatality Plan. 

Tommy Davis was elected as coroner in 2008 and was re-elected in 2012. After losing the office in 2020, he was re-appointed to the role 5 months in and has served out the remainder of the 4 year term. 

As of June 15, 2025, Tommy Davis’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Kimberly L. Griggs received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Registered Nursing from Strayer University.

Kimberly Griggs announces election bid for Newton County coroner

Kimberly L. Griggs works as the Funeral Director, Embalmer Apprentice, and Death Certificate Coordinator of a funeral home in Conyers, Georgia. She also has 21 years of health care experience.

As of July 25, 2024, Kimberly L. Griggs did not have a website or any information online.

As of June 15, 2025, Kimberly L. Griggs did not have a website or any information online.

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- 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. 