October DBA Luncheon Features
State Attorney General Candidates

In this mid-term election year a large number of local and state elections are particularly important to us as attorneys. In that vein, the Oct. 21 Bar Luncheon will offer a forum for considering two candidates running for the position of attorney general for the State of Georgia: Ken Hodges (D), former district attorney of Dougherty County, and Sam Olens (R), former Cobb County Commission chair.

Lunch will begin at 11:30 a.m. and the 50-minute program will begin at noon. It will start with an introduction of the moderator and candidates and an explanation of the rules. Candidates will make two-minute opening statements followed by six or seven questions and then a one-minute closing statement. We will have someone keeping time.

Kyle Wingfield of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution will moderate. Wingfield, a Dalton native, joined the AJC as an opinion columnist in May 2009. He spent the previous four-and-a-half years as an editorial-page writer for the Wall Street Journal, based in Brussels, Belgium. In Europe, Wingfield wrote editorials and columns about topics including international trade, antitrust cases, the telecommunications and aerospace industries, energy and environmental policy, British politics and Russia. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter for the Associated Press in Atlanta and Montgomery, Ala., where he wrote about education, courts and general-interest stories.

Wingfield is a 2001 graduate of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the recipient of the college’s John E. Drewry Young Alumnus award. An Eagle Scout, Wingfield lives in Atlanta with his wife and their toddler son.