Jackson Co. sheriff named to committee to investigate Rabun sheriff

Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum (pictured) is one of four members of a committee appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp to investigate the arrest of Rabun County Sheriff Chad Nichols.

Nichols was arrested last week by the GBI on charges of public indecency and sexual battery. UPDATE: Acting sheriff named for Rabun County (wgtjradio.com)

Other members of the committee which was formed by an executive order issued by Kemp Tuesday are Attorney General Chris Carr (who by law is an automatic appointee) and Morgan County Sheriff Robert Markley.

The committee has 30 days to send a report of its findings to Kemp, who then must decide whether, based on its recommendations, to suspend Nichols for up to 60 days. Georgia Code Title 15. Courts § 15-16-26 | FindLaw

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Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.