Fourth Republican Seeking Coroner's Position

Carrie is from Colorado. She holds a degree in biology from the University of Colorado. She currently resides in Subligna, Georgia with her two daughters. 

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Carrie has experience in the death investigation industry, working as Deputy Coroner in Douglas County, Colorado and in Clark County, Las Vegas, Nevada. She also served as Chief Deputy Coroner in Clear Creek County, Colorado. 

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This is Carrie Blackwells' first entry into politics. 

As of June 7, 2025, Carrie Blackwell did not have a website or any information online.

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Carrie Blackwell

Chattooga 1189, Hammond Announces Canidacy for Coroner

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Heath graduated from Trion High School. He resides in Chattooga County with his wife and three daughters. He attends Dry Valley Baptist Church. He serves as Sergeant of the Teloga Volunteer Fire Department.

Heath owns a lawn care business. He also works as a school bus driver and a driver for S&S Butane Gas.

Heath Hammond (Chattooga County Coroner, Georgia, candidate 2024)

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Jeremy graduated from LaFeyette High School and holds an Associate's degree in Business Administration, Management and Operations. He also completed programs with the 
GA Life & Health Insurance School and Senior Living University. 

Jeremy is a Deputy Coroner in Georgia and is a Funeral Director at Mason Funeral Home. He also owns Summerville Monument Company, and serves as a Funeral Pre-need Counselor with the Atlantic Coast Insurance Group. He previously worked in Human Resources and as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). 

This is Jeremy McElhaney's first entry into politics. 

Wants to implement monthly educational campaigns to reduce preventable deaths such as drug abuse, impaired driving, and suicide.

Prioritizes organizing a trained chaplain program within the Coroner's Office designed to assist families.

- Wants to implement monthly educational campaigns to reduce preventable deaths such as drug abuse, impaired driving, and suicide.
- Prioritizes organizing a trained chaplain program within the Coroner's Office designed to assist families.

As of June 7, 2025, Jeremy McElhaney did not have a website or any information online.

Jeremy McElhaney

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Savanna graduated from Trion High School and Gadsden State Community College. She resides in Chattooga County with her son.

Savanna works as a registered nurse for Atrium Health Floyd.

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Savanna McGill

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 