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Final Copy 287 Ga. 467 S10Z1144. INQUIRY CONCERNING JUDGE KENNETH E. FOWLER. PER CURIAM. Following an investigation into the alleged judicial misconduct of Twiggs County Probate Court Judge Kenneth E. Fowler, on June 11, 2009, the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) filed formal charges in this Court to have Judge Fowler permanently removed from his position as a judge and barred from ever holding or seeking elected or appointed judicial office in the State of Georgia. Having reviewed the record of the JQC's inquiry, and for the reasons that follow, we agree with the recommendation of the JQC, and order that Judge Fowler be immediately and permanently removed from the bench and be barred from ever holding or seeking elected or appointed judicial office in Georgia. The record reveals that, after receiving several complaints about the alleged misconduct of Judge Fowler in the fall of 2008, the JQC launched an investigation. The investigation led to the JQC's assertion of twenty separate allegations of judicial misconduct against Judge Fowler, and led to the filing of the formal charges at issue here. A hearing was held before the JQC on the charges against Judge Fowler on January 28-29, 2010, and the JQC found, among other things, that Judge

Fowler had: (1) violated Canons 11 and 22 of the Code of Judicial Conduct, and OCGA

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