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Georgia on My Mind
STATE BAR OF GEORGIA • CITY OF BROOKHAVEN • GIRMA, GMA, AND GALLAGHER BASSETT • GEORGIA POST • STATE ADA COORDINATOR’S OFFICE

After Three Requests, Adrienne D. Nash Wrote: “Feel Free to Resend”

As of October 17, 2026. Times are Eastern.

The State Bar of Georgia named Adrienne D. Nash my contact on May 4, 2026. I sent her my evidence on May 18 and asked for a receipt. I asked again May 20. I asked a third time May 21. Her first reply came that evening.

A habit of silence, then a form reply.

On May 4, 2026, John J. Shiptenko told me who would handle my file at the State Bar of Georgia: “The OGC has appointed Ms. Adrienne Nash to serve in that role.” Shiptenko wrote that I could send her “all evidence, documents, and other forms of information”.

So I did. At 1:13 PM on May 18, 2026, I sent Adrienne D. Nash, Grievance Counsel, five attachments. I asked for one thing: confirmation they arrived and were placed in the file. I asked because the Bar had already admitted, on April 21, that my earlier submissions “were not added to the grievance file at that time.”

Silence.

At 9:29 AM on May 20, I asked again. Silence.

That same morning, at 8:31 AM, Shiptenko had written: “I received it as a courtesy copy. You can contact Ms. Nash directly to verify her receipt.” I already had, on May 18. My 9:29 AM email was the second time.

At 9:40 AM on May 21, I asked a third time. My subject line started with the words “THIRDA REQUEST”.

At 5:25 PM on May 21, Nash wrote her first email to me: “I have received the additional information you requested to be included in your grievance.” And: “I reviewed all submitted attachments to ensure they could be opened.” One of the five, she wrote, could not be opened. “Please feel free to resend the inaccessible document.”

At 6:02 PM I resent it in more than one format. At 11:44 AM on May 22, Nash wrote: “I received both of your recent attachments, and I was able to access them. They will also be added to the file for review.”

That is all Nash has ever written to me from her own address. Two emails, as of October 17, 2026. The second one is the last.

What I Allege:

  1. Named, then silent. I allege that on May 4, 2026 the Bar named Adrienne D. Nash to handle my file, and that her first email to me came 17 days later, on May 21, 2026, at 5:25 PM.
  2. Three asks for one answer. I allege that I asked Nash in writing to confirm receipt of my May 18 evidence on May 18 at 1:13 PM, May 20 at 9:29 AM and May 21 at 9:40 AM, and that her first reply came after the third.
  3. Sent back to her. I allege that on May 20, 2026 Shiptenko wrote, “You can contact Ms. Nash directly to verify her receipt.”
  4. The file that would not open. I allege that on May 21, 2026 Nash wrote that one of my five attachments could not be opened, and, “Please feel free to resend the inaccessible document.”
  5. Then nothing. I allege that Nash’s May 22, 2026, 11:44 AM email is the last email she has sent me from her own address, as of October 17, 2026.
  6. It appears to me that a receipt, the simplest thing an office can give, had to be pulled out of the Bar’s Grievance Counsel three times.

What It Did to Me:

I told the Bar on May 27 what those three requests cost: “That was institutional correction work caused by the Bar’s admitted file-placement failure.” I spent good hours, the few my health gives me, asking whether the mail arrived.

Is this how they would treat their own family or friends that were disabled?

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