History remembers R.P. "Bob" Mikell as one of the last "ordinaries" in Bulloch County. He was elected the ordinary in 1956 and served four, four-year terms. In 1974, two years after Mikell's service was complete, Georgia became the last state to change the "court of the ordinary" to the "court of probate."
Bulloch County's extraordinary ordinary
Historical Society hears the story of Judge R.P. Bob Mikell
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