ADA MATTERS BECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER

A DISABLED DAD’S ADA MATTERS
Georgia on My Mind
STATE BAR OF GEORGIA • CITY OF BROOKHAVEN • GIRMA / GALLAGHER BASSETT

Jeffrey W. DeLoach

Chair, State Disciplinary Board · record last updated July 3, 2026

Jeffrey W. DeLoach

Who he is

He chairs the State Disciplinary Board. The grievances I filed against four lawyers inside the Office of the General Counsel were routed to him, outside that office. On June 30 he dismissed all four.

The takeaway

He dismissed four grievances against Bar lawyers in single-paragraph letters on one day, including one supported by a seven-page narrative and twenty-four pages of exhibits, finding no basis even to forward them for investigation.

In his own words

On the grievance against a Deputy General Counsel, supported by a full record, he wrote:

“I thoroughly reviewed the seven-page narrative description of your grievance against Mr. NeSmith, as well as the twenty-four pages of exhibits submitted in support of the grievance”

His conclusion, in each letter:

“I find no basis for this grievance to be forwarded to the State Bar Disciplinary Board for investigation … As a result, this grievance is dismissed”

By the numbers

4
grievances dismissed in one day
24
pages of exhibits reviewed on one, then dismissed
0
forwarded for investigation
1
paragraph per dismissal letter

What he decided

June 30: dismissed the grievance against Deputy GC Morrison
June 30: dismissed the grievance against Deputy GC NeSmith
June 30: dismissed the grievance against Assistant GC Burgess
June 30: dismissed the grievance against the Bar’s ADA contact, Shiptenko

The one place routing worked, and what it produced

Sending these grievances to the Disciplinary Board Chair, outside the office they targeted, was the one point where conflict-screening visibly worked. It produced four single-paragraph dismissals in a day. Independent review that forwards nothing is hard to tell apart from no review at all.

He read the record. He forwarded none of it. He signed four the same day.

Sources: the June 30 dismissal (NeSmith) · the June 30 dispositions exhibit. Every quote is transcribed from the document it links to. If any line here is wrong, I will correct it and date the correction. See the full State Bar record and the unanswered questions.