Harrison W. Kohler

harrison@finchmccranie.com

Harrison W. Kohler is a former assistant district attorney and prosecutor in the Georgia Attorney General’s office. He has also served as an agency attorney for the Georgia Department of Community Health and has been in private practice, specializing in administrative healthcare law.

He has had 90 jury trials and approximately 50 appellate oral arguments. He successfully argued Georgia v. McCollum, 505 U.S. 42 (1992) in the United States Supreme Court. In 1996, the Supreme Court Historical Society named Georgia v. McCollum as one of the significant oral arguments heard by the United States Supreme Court between the years 1955 and 1993.

He received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and his master’s degree from Syracuse University. He graduated with distinction from Emory University School of Law.

Prior to attending law school, he served three years in the army, including one year in Vietnam as a medic with the Fourth Infantry Division. There he was awarded the combat medical badge and army commendation medal with oak leaf cluster.