State Personnel Board v. Adams

Blackburn, Judge.

Upon our grant of their discretionary appeal application, the State Personnel Board (SPB), the Board of Natural Resources of the State of Georgia (Board), and the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Georgia (DNR) (referred to collectively as the State), appeal the superior court’s order directing the SPB to hear appellee Spence Adams’ appeal of the Board’s decision refusing to consider his request for waiver of mandatory retirement, pursuant to OCGA § 47-2-224.

Adams, formerly a law enforcement conservation ranger employed by DNR in a supervisory classification,…