Judge Jon “Bo” Wood is stepping down from the bench.
Wood, a Superior Court judge in the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, wrote a letter to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal earlier this month, announcing his last day of work will be Sept. 30. Wood most recently won a re-election bid in 2014 for another four-year term on the bench.
“It has been an honor and privilege to serve,” he wrote in his letter June 3.
Wood, who did not return multiple calls seeking comment, was appointed to the position in 1985 by Gov. Joe Frank Harris. He was 35 years old at the time. A native of Baldwin County, Ga., Wood came to the northwest corner of the state after graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1974.
He started as an assistant district attorney before going into private practice in 1977.