An area attorney is set to serve on a college board with the latest appointment announced by his firm.

Andy Garner, an attorney with McRae, Smith, Peek, Harman & Monroe, will be joining the Georgia Highlands College Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

Garner began his career in law after joining the firm in 2001 once he completed a clerkship for Judges J. Carlisle Overstreet and Carl C. Brown, Jr. of the Augusta Judicial Circuit. He’s been a partner with the firm since 2006, and focuses on civil litigation and practice in banking and commercial lending, business, local government, estate planning, administration of estates and real property law.

Alongside his private practice, Garner has been counsel to the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission, an assistant county attorney for Floyd County, and served as counsel for Board of Tax Assessors and the Health Department. His community service includes membership in the Rome Seven Hills Rotary Club, President, Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer of the Rome Bar Association, President of the Historic College Heights Neighborhood Association, board member for the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce, been involved with the Republican party in Rome, and a state committee member of the party as well.

Here’s a release from social media about Garner’s appointment from MSP:

MSP partner Andy Garner has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Highlands College Foundation, continuing the firm’s longstanding commitment to supporting higher education in our region. The late Judge James D. Maddox, while a partner at the firm, was instrumental in establishing the predecessor to Georgia Highlands, Floyd Junior College, while serving on the Board of Regents. The downtown Rome campus is named for Judge Maddox. Georgia Highlands is a multi-campus, state college member of the University System of Georgia serving students across 30 counties in northwest Georgia. Andy has practiced law for over 20 years in Rome, and concentrates in the areas of local government, estate planning, estate administration, real estate and commercial law.