Deloach v. Evans County

Thompson, Justice.

Kay Deloach serves as the Clerk of the Magistrate Court of Evans County, Georgia, and she also fulfills certain magistrate duties. She is compensated as a full-time clerk and part-time magistrate, according to a statutorily set salary. She petitioned for a declaratory judgment and writ of mandamus seeking to compel the Board of Commissioners of Evans County to compensate her as a full-time magistrate as well as part-time clerk of the Magistrate Court. She appeals from the denial of her petition.

The evidence established that Deloach was appointed in 1994 to a four-year term…