Cobb County Chief Assistant Solicitor General Chris Lanning has been named the 2019 Assistant Solicitor General of the Year for the State of Georgia by the Georgia Association of Solicitors-General.  

Cobb County’s Solicitor General Barry Morgan had the pleasure of presenting Lanning the award at the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia’s annual training at Jekyll Island. 

Chris has worked for the Cobb County Solicitor General’s Office for eleven years and was named Chief Assistant in 2017.  Chris currently supervises the day to day operations of the office, prosecutes the Vehicular Homicide cases, and supervises the Domestic Violence Court. In his nomination letter, Solicitor General Barry Morgan said: “Chris is a prosecutor’s prosecutor, and I highly recommended him for consideration as the assistant solicitor general of the year.”