Hannah Palmquist

Hannah Palmquist leads the Office of the Attorney General’s Human TraffickingProsecution Unit. Hannah earned her law degree from Emory School of Law in 2012. After Law School,Hannah served as an Assistant District Attorney for DeKalb County. She then served asan Assistant District Attorney for Cobb County in the Trial Division before moving to theSpecial Victims Unit where she prosecuted sexual offenses and crimes against children.She obtained convictions on cases including child molestation, rape, child pornography,domestic violence and human trafficking. During that time, Hannah was named to theDaily Report’s 2016 “On the Rise,” edition, a publication of 40 attorneys under the ageof 40 state-wide who are determined to be “Rising Stars.” In 2017, she successfullyargued the constitutionality of the Georgia statute which criminalizes child pornographyto the Georgia Supreme Court. In September of 2018, she became the supervisor of theCobb County Juvenile Unit where she worked with juvenile runaways and victims ofhuman trafficking. On July 1, 2019, Hannah was named the Unit Chief over the Attorney General’s HumanTrafficking Unit where she oversees a team dedicated to the prosecution of domesticminor sex trafficking. In that role, she was twice named to James Magazine’s list ofGeorgia’s Most Influential Attorneys. In her current role, she leads the investigation andprosecution of human trafficking cases across the state of Georgia, provides training tolocal, national, and international audiences, and leads a national work group for the TimTebow Foundation focused on reducing buyer demand for sex trafficking. The biography I would have written is much more fun.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.