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"I'm the luckiest man alive, as I was able to marry my best friend and raise my family in such a wonderful and beautiful place. I want to go to Atlanta and serve this district in a way which will represent the conservative nature of the North Georgia Mountains."
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BIOGRAPHYStephen was raised in Gwinnett County and attended high school at a Christian academy in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Stephen was successful in and out of the classroom, becoming an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America. In athletics, he was named a 2nd Team Basketball All-American by the National Association of Christian Athletes.
After VMI, Stephen enrolled at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, and after graduation he passed the Georgia Bar Exam on his first attempt. In 1997, he and his wife moved to Union County and he was officially sworn into the practice of law in Blairsville by the Honorable Hugh Stone on June 13, 1997. Stephen has practiced law in Union County for over 11 years, representing hundreds of individual clients and several corporations in the area. During his time in Blairsville, he served as Enotah Bar President.
In
1999, he was appointed by the Honorable Hugh Stone to serve on the
Tripartite Committee for Indigent Defense as the attorney
representative for the entire circuit. This committee oversaw the
submission of the criminal defense budget for the entire judicial
circuit. In 1996, Stephen married his college sweetheart, Regina Dumouchelle. They met in 1991 while Stephen was a cadet at VMI and while Regina was a freshman at Radford University in Virginia. The couple dated almost five years before they married in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
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