H. Maddox Kilgore

Maddox began his legal career serving as a law clerk for the former Cobb County Superior Court Judge and Georgia Supreme Court Justice P. Harris Hines.  As a law assistant on the Georgia Supreme Court, Maddox honed his craft of legal writing at the highest level.

As an advocate, Maddox served as an Assistant Attorney General for five years, where he defended murder convictions before the Georgia Supreme Court and argued habeas corpus cases across the State of Georgia. He then served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Cobb Judicial Circuit for six years where he served as lead counsel in dozens of felony jury trials, including charges of murder, armed robbery, child cruelty, and drug trafficking.

Armed with those years of prosecutorial and appellate experience, Maddox began defending juveniles and adults at every stage of the criminal justice system, from investigation, to trial, appeal, and habeas corpus.  Maddox has successfully defended mentally-ill clients charged with murder, obtaining multiple verdicts of NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY.

Maddox is often asked to assist other lawyers defending mentally-ill clients, as well as lecture on the subject of mental-health defenses. Much of his expertise is devoted to appellate practice before the Georgia Court of Appeals and Georgia Supreme Court, where Maddox has successfully won new trials for his clients.

In 2023, Maddox and his partner Carlos successfully represented a mentally ill client before the Supreme Court of the United States, winning a unanimous decision of the high court in his client’s favor on a constitutional double jeopardy issue. In another high profile case, Maddox served as lead counsel in the defense of Justin Ross Harris, a Cobb County father charged with murder after leaving his son in a hot car. After nine years of defending Mr. Harris, Maddox and his team secured a dismissal for all charges relating to the death of Mr. Harris’s son.

Maddox currently serves as the Coordinating Special Master for attorney discipline cases prosecuted by the State Bar of Georgia, having been appointed by the Georgia Supreme Court in 2018. Maddox served as the president of the Cobb County Bar Association in 2018-19.  In 2024, Maddox and his partner Carlos were honored as the Jimmy Berry Champions of Justice, an award recognizing a Cobb County Bar member who has strengthened and promoted justice and the Constitution.

Maddox is a member of the State Bars in both Alabama and Georgia.